The question about your pre-flop game on 5/10 play money on stars is kind-of null*.
Unless I'm wrong, the max buy in on those tables is 2k, which happens to be the same amount of play money chips that you can get added to your account if you "go broke" of play money. So the super terribad fish who can't win enough to sit at a bigger blind can still sit here comfortably. They only have to be good enough to make their chips last the time limit until they can get new chips.
The result of all this is that most of the opponents at 5/10 and below are truly unskilled. They may be great people, but they're fish at NLHE.
In general:
No one understands position.
No one understands a "starting hands" chart.
No one understands bet-sizing.
No one understands drawing probabilities.
No one understands pot-odds.
No one understands ranges.
No one is paying attention to anything but their own cards.
Everyone assumes that you should play like they do, and if you don't, then you're dumb.
IF you're doing any of those things (fess up... we were all there once), then I suggest picking one and getting your study face on.
There is almost no case in poker where raising KK pre-flop is bad. If you played against someone for a million hands and the only time they ever went all-in pre-flop was with {AA, KK}, then and ONLY THEN would raising KK pre-flop be bad - and only against that 1 opponent.
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* Understanding position and starting hands is part of the picture, but so is thinking about your opponents' ranges as a factor which shapes your own ranges. Pre-flop game when everyone limps and no one is folding is very basic. You fold sometimes, and raise instead of limping.
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