CCP Soundwave
C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2010.06.02 22:15:00 -
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Originally by: Omal Oma Edited by: Omal Oma on 31/05/2010 21:07:17 Edited by: Omal Oma on 31/05/2010 21:06:44
Originally by: CCP Soundwave You are pretty much my favorite newbie.
I wish more new people would take the path you did, well done.
Couple things about this...
I hope they don't. And I hope this isn't the vision CCP has for EVE. I say this because... this is how I enjoyed EVE. Many others wouldn't have fun doing what I did. Many wouldn't appreciate the work I put in nor would they care to work and build an alliance.
As another guy in this thread mentioned, he did some low sec pirating and he made good money doing that. Another person took a noob ship and salvaged belts in null sec. They had fun doing it their way.
In my humble... noob opinion, I hope you guys don't try to mold a path for people to progress in this game and continue to leave it very open ended and... open beginning. Keep the tutorials challenging and cryptic. Word of mouth sells this game. I wish I could write them :).
In my opinion, the only path I'd set for people is to give them a newbie mission where they asked to explore into null/low sec space. The current perception of this space is very skewed by people who have grown to be afraid of it. People need to start losing ships that early so they can understand on how to replace them. I chose to go into null because it's what I wanted to do. Most people don't understand this aspect of the game when they first start, I just did my homework. This needs to be shown to a player early on when they can blow up tackle frigs left and right with little care in the world.
True story, 5 days into EVE I was held ransom inside a low sec station... I didn't know what to do. I jumped into a low sec system to get something I needed for my new catalyst that I got from a mission and there was a camp of baddies on the other side. Some quick thinking where I docked up, grabbed a noob ship and knew they were gonna kill it. So I used my pod to get back to high sec and go out.
This needs to be repeated some how for everyone.
Do your best to keep the game working and just keep adding to the tools for us to play with (Change the SOV mechanic so fleets are forced to spread out on a node)
The only thing I find wrong with the beginning of this game is that it pushes new players into some really bad corporations who are recruiting just to feed their high sec play style and taxes. I've found the high sec corps who my alliance recruits to be far more ignorant of this game than me where they have been around for years. Furthermore, I find them to be more corrupt than null sec corps (not the ones we recruit... the corps in high sec in general). The High sec ones tend to have an agenda for a self serving need where null sec corps tend to work as a group and do things together.
Oh, this is my main / alliance / corp.
We definately don't disagree that players should pick EVE up and play it exactly the way they want it. My comment referred to you starting the game in a similar way I did, and you're enjoying the part of the game I spent so long enjoying (and still do). You took a difficult but very rewarding road and i commend you for it.
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