Originally by: Zozzzo

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Originally by: Space Wanderer

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7/10 Very good troll. The only thing that betrays it is that it is too obvious that you don't read the replies. But apart from that it's good work.

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Your troll-dar is being jammed. Recommend troll-painter so you can properly id trolls.

Why do you think Eve has so much advertising? Why do you think Eve has revamped the new player experience so many times?
Because the developers are too narrow minded to figure out how to make this game appeal to more players. Consequently, they must have a truly staggering rate of attrition among free-trial players. They probably think it is due to the game's complexity, but after thinking about it I think that only accounts for a small percentage of abandonment. I think the majority are like me wondering what is Fun or Meaningful about this game early on. Not much. Mine, PvE mission, Salvage, collect ISK...YAWN

I have been (ON MY OWN- out of game) researching this whole alliance/corp thing. I say on my own because it doesn't seem to be part of the tutorial (which by the way I am stuck at Dagan since I can't overcome his shield regen in my cruiser). I keep hearing "Get help with Dagan", but there is no tutorial explanation of how to share a mission so both people get credit for it, if that is even possible. Anyway, back to alliance/corp. So I ASSUME there are border/sovereignty conflicts going on that are totally unrelated to the four factions. fine whatever as long as there is some sort of landgrab conflict I'm game. So I open up the starmap and start clicking on one alliance at a time. Then I alt-tab out of the game (and it's bs that I have to do this out of the game, but not a deal breaker). I search the alliances in wiki.eveonline.com then I click on each member corporation. Some have no website. Some have a website saying they aren't recruiting or want only people with 10M skills. I do this searching for about 2 hours. YAWN. I thought I was doing pretty good at 1.2M skills. So basically, I can't seem to even get involved in any border/soveriegnty war until I have 10M skills? HAHAHA you think this game will ever grow with this kind of marketing strategy?

I look at the recruiting forum next. The well organized ads detailing What we offer & What we want usually want 10M skills. There are a handful that will take newbs, but they are very small and don't even mention exactly which alliance they are in, just that it's "growing." or don't even turn up results in that search. lol. I don't mind being somewhat of an underdog compared to monsters like goonswarm, but come on, I don't want to get pwned at 20:1 odds all day either. A middle range alliance would be fine, but they are picky(10M) for some very mysterious reason. Maybe lag is such a **** blocker in this game that a small experienced gang is far better than attacking with a throng of newbs? I wouldn't know. You'd think having many people spending time in the alliance's home systems would be a good thing for defense and skirmishes? Maybe there is some dynamic about defending and taking systems that I am unaware of that makes having many players a negative. Anyway, after a few hours of researching corps out-of-game in IE, it seems impossible to join an alliance with any soveriegnty on the star map. Strange but true. Mostly Harmless looks good, but I'm unable to find openings.

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