My First Gen Experience

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It looks like I can write about my own experience as a first gen for theme week, so that is what I will do. I wanted to start off explaining that I am not a first gen, I have been in the VHL for a short time before this, but people thought I was brand spankin new when I came back… Funny how that works. How was my first VHL experience? Well, it wasn’t terrible, I had joined, knew nothing and that’s how I played for quite some time. I would take the obvious welfare, practice, and all the easy points that was possible to collect. It took be long into my VHLM experience to understand how this forum worked, what I could do for TPE and how to get it, but as a first gen, I was never really shown the ropes like I know them now. I didn’t get a forum help post of what TPE can be collected, and how, maybe it was just not team for newbies, but there was not much discord chatter either. When I compare this experience to the most recent player I made, this was not ideal for a first gen player, as my VHL return team showed me what I could do for TPE with an in-depth post with everything new players, and returning players need to know. This is exactly what we needed back then. Anyways, the VHLM in my first gen seasons were good, I didn’t start out too hot, but I quickly learned to stay on top of my low paying welfare. And just like that a couple seasons I was on the top leaders for points in the VHLM, I do not believe I won anything, but it was a cool feeling. I hope more first gens could feel that because I believe that is one of the things that made me come back like 10-20 seasons later. Now why did I leave? I think I have explained this many times before, but I do believe I had just forgotten about the league in general, after my breakout VHLM season. I saw myself go the VHL and I did not perform nearly as well, and for some reason I didn’t want to go through that again. I think since I was only collecting welfare, I knew it would take me a long time and I may never even reach the level of some of the max earners would get. So, I think that might have been one reason, but another was based around my VHL team not using discord. I love discord, I always have it open when I am on the computer, so all the team notifications would go to me to remind me to check my player, well with the VHL team I was on did not allow me to join their discord simply because they did not have one. It was a disappointment and it really made me forget the forum exists, I mean I am writing this now after seeing a reminder on the discord chat, this is how effective it is for me. Overall, I had a good experience in the VHLM in my first season, it feels good that I am back now and taking advantage of my free time to write for the forum, its much more entertaining seeing my player grow, and grow. If there is any first gen players reading this, try making some of these media spots and articles and such, it grows your player faster, and strengthens your writing ability. Yes, I still suck at writing, but you should have seen me 2 years ago.

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Collecting both 6 capped and doubles:

12/18/2022