Why are are higher level players so rude ??

It's because all the nice players (Hi!) stopped playing frequently. :(

To fix your name: /nick OneShotOneKill
To stop your games from being exitted: Boss yourself via !boss OneShootOneKill before other people join, then you can !endvote and !kick abusers

It's a teamgame with a long time-commitment between teammates with smallish teams (compared to something like TF2 at least), where you can see what your teammates are doing.

This combination of mechanics naturally creates rage because you can see why your team is failing in intimate detail. Look at how vicious the various DOTAlike communities are, and DOTAs have those same features.

First off, the admins do not tolerate teamkilling or verbal abuse. You can report the players who do this, and an admin can take action on-the-spot if they happen to be in-game with you.

Now, fortunately, ZK is not DOTA and it offers a 1v1 mode. So you can play without letting down any teammates. If you play 1v1, you will get clobbered, and fast. But most 1v1 games are played in batches of a half-dozen or so, and the time between rounds is quick, so you'll be able to hop right back in and start again. 1v1s offer the fastest way to learn ZK's mechanics with the most direct feedback (whoops I'm dead that strategy didn't work). If you're willing to see through the unrelenting failure of round after round of crushing defeat, you'll get better *fast*.

Then when you come back to teamgames you'll be a far better contributor to your team.

because moderation is very lenient and the game is free.

any other team game e.g. sc2, cs:go, LoL, DoTA - as you get better, your rank is increased and you're matched with people of equal skill

in ZK it is the opposite, the better you are, the more retarded your team mates become

so you can see how that might be annoying

it is an unavoidable consequence of a small playerbase

See, that's a prime example of why i've always been a proponent of "making people disappear" as a tool of social engineering in online communities.

Teamkilling:
Seems so far you only played Coop games vs AI and chicken defense.
When this type of game is coming to an end, it seems to be somewhat habit of some players to use whatever weapons they have left on their own units or allys.
For example the chicken queen is almost dead but a player still has a nuke. So he might nuke his allys, because explosions. Not supernice to do but when the game ends one minute later anyway, no need to be upset either.
If it was serious teamkilling then report the player.

Spectators even can kill my Game:
That is a bug. (although strangely some argue it is a feature)
Eitherway it is on bugtracker and if more players comment on it then maybe it catches attention of a developer who might consier it worthwhile to fix. http://code.google.com/p/zero-k/issues/detail?id=1551

there are 2 reasons high* players rage at low level players

1. cause they are low level (all "your doin it wrong" coments relate to this)
2. cause they themselves are noobs obsessed about winning
3. cause they just got clusterfucked (and clusterfuck is never your fault**)

*(high) level? skill? retardation? or just high on drugs... the first 2 are debatable because there are only 4 players in the whole of the ZK playerbase that i consider high skill, and only fireman has a high level of 150++***

**its ALLWAYS your fault

***curent fireman ban ---> (PENALTY: Pottymouth)

quote: lose one gain all the subsequent that that one would have driven away net gain

see League of Lolnabs for details of how this dose not apear to apply to competetive games (evryone rages there)

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quote: so you can see how that might be annoying it is an unavoidable consequence of a small playerbase

It is annoying for veterans, but it is not unavoidable. The small playerbase seems to prefer staying a small playerbase if it's driving away the new players.

If veterans want more people to grow into veterans and therefore have more people to play with, they are going to need to learn how to be more patient in the "everyone welcome" room. Every veteran starts as a new player.

quote: Right now im just feeling like solo play thIs great Game to avoid People of the Community

Those are just tips to make your experience with the community better, in no way an excuse for abuse by veterans.

Playing solo to get familiar with the game (interface, units) is a good idea. Then you need to spectate a few 1v1 or team games to understand how the game is played in this context (get more ground control instead of waiting for the apocalypse in your cosy base).

If you happen to have friends who also started playing with you, I'd strongly advise against making a clan with them until you are better. A clan of new players who are all using the same (bad) strategy will definitively attract hostility, because a clan of 2-3 players not helping their team will ruin the fun (and chances) of whoever gets them in their teams.

(Note to devs: to avoid this situation, maybe it should not be possible to create a clan or join a clan if average ELO is lower than a threshold... or if joining would lower the average below that threshold)

There are some players, who only want to play with there mates. And Clan is some kind of connection point. The Pirate Clan started with 4 newbies too. Than there joined some good players or other complete newbies. But we always got the Clan to comunicat bout stuff. Like "When do you want to play?" Or "Can you help me mate, I played a game and did this or that wrong. What do you think, can I do, to to get better?" aso.
Or other example for unlimited elo Clans is the room Newbies welcome. There you can learn with other newbie and don't need to have a high elo Clan.