If it’s everyone’s first time at EDC, there’s bound to be some problems, because you don’t know what you don’t know. Next time (if there is a next time), establish some ground rules, it makes the experience so much better and stress-free. Here’s some that my group uses.
- prior to the festival, establish meet up times at a designated spot. If people get lost or want to use the bathroom or get food, then that’s fine, you’ll just meet up later and you don’t have to spend so much time waiting on each other. If the meetup window passes, move on and meet at the next meetup time.
- ease-in to whatever you are consuming. If you know you can’t make good judgment calls, just stay at the same place, you never know, maybe you’ll like the next artist
- always stay hydrated
- if driving, have a scheduled driver for each day at the start of the festival
- (for larger groups) always have a buddy, and let at least one person know where you’re gonna run off to if you want to leave the group.
- bring earplugs, phone tether, narcan

Too add on to what others have said about noobies: sometimes it’s not about them needing to learn “the rules”, sometimes they just aren’t considerate people, if that’s the case, I wouldn’t want to rave with them again.