Ms Badjuju
   |
Posted - 2009.05.21 17:04:00 -
[1]
 Originally by: OT Smithers
New player here.
Obviously there is no question as to whether or not a new player can eventually compete in terms of any one narrow career path. Some have mentioned frigates as an example, saying correctly that a five year vet and a few month old noob might well be relatively equal in terms of their frigate skill.
This is nice but completely misses the point. The noob in his tech 1 frigate fitted with tech 1 mods is not facing vets in tech 1 frigates and mods. He is facing off against vets in tech 2 heavy assault ships and battlecruisers and battleships, and while he knows intellectually that he might EVENTUALLY match that vets skills in those ships as well, by the time he does (perhaps a year or two or three down the line) those same vets might well be flying tech 4 ships. And until he does match them he doesn't have a hope in hell of killing them. The game is coded this way.
New players like myself apparently have only a few choices. We can:
1. Hide in high sec and not actually play the game.
2. Go to low sec and spend those "training" months or years playing rabbit -- running the second you see anyone, and knowing that the only people you can possibly hurt are people even newer than you who happened to accidently wander your way.
3. Join a PvP corp if they will let you. Instead of running and hiding you get the "honor" of playing corp mascot, towelboy, and fluffer. You can "tackle" the enemy and perhaps hold him long enough for your buddies to get the kill. You'll die of course, but as a noob that's your right and proper place -- dying so that your betters might score a victory.
So yes, technically a new player can compete in some mythical once in a blue moon way, and perhaps relatively quickly, but in practical terms the entrance curve for this game isn't a curve at all, it's a straight up vertical climb.
The question is: does this sound FUN. And the answer, apparently for a lot of folks, is no.
No offense but .....you sound like you're missing a backbone. Your post was all problem and no solution.
I have played for 2 weeks. I'm broke, weak, under skilled, under strained, and under equipped. PvP beats the crap out of me, I'm out matched in every possible aspect. I'm also determined, intelligent, and inspired by cerebral challenges. I'll be carving a suitable place for me in this game in short order. Maybe I'll hire you to run some errands for me later  . My husband says he intimidated by this game, and I said that's exactly why I want to play it.
Communities are a liquid thing, just as new players join, old players leave. I'm willing to bet the world isn't as top heavy as you think, nor is the model as linear as you make it sound. I can't be sure from what angle you're looking at things, but from my mine I see multiple roads leading to the top.
|