You should make servers in which ONLY rookies can join. Increase the rookie time limit to 100 hours. Only admins with over 100 hours can be there, or even better, make them the UWE servers.
The benefit is that newcomers have some time to acclimatise to the game.
The immediate counter is this: but where do people with more than 100 hours go? Well, they can no longer join non-rookie servers. And let's face it, most people on rookie servers have too many hours anyway. It forces the rookies to clump together until good enough and the good players to clump together. There is almost always enough of either group playing, but the problem is that the good players diffuse out into rookie servers. Collect them all up and you easily can fill two servers (minimum).
This is how you improve the learning curve.
One more possible counter is that the rookies will never learn. They will. As someone pointed out, the best way for people to learn is against other children (not 10 yo footballers against 30 year olds), and they grow together with the aid of one adult. There is always going to be someone naturally able on a server who can lead the group. They can ALWAYS join a non-rookie server if they really want anyway.
The benefit is that newcomers have some time to acclimatise to the game.
The immediate counter is this: but where do people with more than 100 hours go? Well, they can no longer join non-rookie servers. And let's face it, most people on rookie servers have too many hours anyway. It forces the rookies to clump together until good enough and the good players to clump together. There is almost always enough of either group playing, but the problem is that the good players diffuse out into rookie servers. Collect them all up and you easily can fill two servers (minimum).
This is how you improve the learning curve.
One more possible counter is that the rookies will never learn. They will. As someone pointed out, the best way for people to learn is against other children (not 10 yo footballers against 30 year olds), and they grow together with the aid of one adult. There is always going to be someone naturally able on a server who can lead the group. They can ALWAYS join a non-rookie server if they really want anyway.