not quite true... I can't say I didn't stay in the protection for the whole 100 ticks on my first eras.

On my first era I left my protection the tick I joined, heh. But from my experience newbies first do the tutorial, then the next time they log in they drop protection and start attacking.

Did they forget to add in the quote that the player that took the OPs was actually going to play? That's your fault for not having a way to guard them. No from me. Can't appease to noobs who don't know how to defend spam. ARM talks a lot of smack all over forums anyways.