This village sucks, everyone's building hovels and one guy has built a shack (stealing the planks we needed for our defense construction tonight to do so) and stolen all the defensive items from the bank to keep in his house. We're not going to make it through tonight, and it's only our second day!
I can sympathize. In my new town I took the effort to post newbie guides on the forums, put up a roll call thread, even posted individual messages on everyone's doors to make sure they read the forums.
End of Day 1, and we don't have a workshop, 3 people have built hovels, one hero has gone off into the wastes to suicide (taking with him lots of alcohol and pills from the bank), 16 people are inactive or non-responsive, and of the active players, several are openly advocating every-man-for-himself. I am hoarding wrought iron in a valiant attempt to get workshop built tomorrow, but I fear it is going to be a losing battle.
I miss my last town. :-P
Edit: What is it with these new players and suicide-griefing? One hero suicided last night, and then this morning another griefer went 12 ap into the corner of the map, it seems he picked up the items the dead hero dropped when he died and carried them further from town.
And there are a couple of people who went "yeah I read the forums, but I don't care about the town, neener neener". They started building the catapult before someone stopped it by yanking the planks.