MadMuppet
Kerguelen Station
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Posted - 2012.05.04 23:29:00 -
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Sid Hudgens wrote:I can tell you that the learning implants can get new EVE players into a bad place in game. It happened to me and several people that I know. The cycle goes like this:
1. Start playing eve - learning, reading, tutorials, holy crap this is cool, what a deep game, etc
2. Hey I finished some skills and now I can fly a bigger, cooler ship! Sweet!
3. I wonder if I can train these skills faster so I can fly more even cooler ships?
4. Attribute implants! Perfect! ... and expesive
5. Grind ... Grind ... Grind
6. Woohoo implants! Evemon says this is gonna save so much time.
7. PVP? And loose the implants I spent all that time grinding for? No way!
8. Hmmm ... jump clones you say? Yes that's pefect then I can try pvp without loosing my implants!
8. I need to get my standings to what?
9. Grind missions
10. Grind missions
11. Grind missions
12. Grind missions
13. This game is so boring, **** this.
And that is why I quit EVE the first time I tried it. Same for some friends ... because of the damn jump clone standings grind. I came back; they haven't yet. Part of the reason I came back is because I learned about the Estel Arador corp and the shortcut to jump clones. Not sure if that service was around when I quit the first time but I know I hadn't heard of it.
I guess I would say that maybe the issue is more with jump clones than it is with learning implants.
The problem is that something needs to change at step 9. Easiest thing to do is join a jump clone corp like Astel, but I think it was earlier in this thread where someone said you should be able to get one jump clone for free (like you can get one Research agent for free or one PI station for free, but you need Research Project Management or Interplanetary Consolidation). It should also be a tutorial mission so that people can understand the mechanic. Give them a +1 implant after they sucessfully clone jump as a reward.
(secondary part) To offset the imporvment you would offset the jump clone timer by 30-60 minutes per level of Infomorph Pyschology.
Hey CCP, there is still drone poop in the loot soup! |