Rhok Relztem
Caldari
CGMA Synergist Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.08.17 06:19:00 -
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Fantastic Dev Blog! While I won't pretend to fully understand everything in there, I did get the gist of what is transpiring. Kudos to you CCP Tanis for the level of detail in that blog and for getting those lines of communication opened again.
As for getting more players onto SISI and into the mass tests...
Making it easier to actually get onto SISI is a huge step in the right direction. I actually started to get SISI installed a few times with the thought of attending the mass tests but the procedure was so convoluted and time consuming that I just gave up, and I consider myself fairly knowledgeable computerwise and quite skilled at installing difficult programs and software.
Once you actually make it easier to get onto SISI, enticing people to attend the mass testing is another matter entirely. I noticed a few suggestions about people in highsec who have no fleet experience and about 0.0 players who have their territory to worry about as well as players in general who don't feel it's worth their time and hence the idea of rewards of some sort. Sooo, I have a few suggestions (surprize!  )...
- For the highsec crowd (and lowsec/pirates, or anyone for that matter, who is unfamiliar with large fleet action) - A tutorial - Fleet Pilot - along with the Career Path tutorials that takes the pilot through a series of fleet maneuvers in a mission style path. Upon completion of the tutorial path, the pilot is rewarded with a certificate of completion (perhaps a new certificate tree).
- For the 0.0 corp/alliance crowd - I'm basicly just seconding the suggestion made to lock down POVs for one hour before and one hour after a mass test thus allowing significant numbers of fleet players to attend without the fear of attack while testing on SISI.
- Rewards for attending mass tests:
- 1mil SP for use on SISI per mass test attended with a bonus of 5mil SP for every three mass tests attended.
- A Mass-Tester badge on Tranquility for each test attended. For each five badges collected, an upgraded badge is given as well as a certificate in the new certificate tree (see highsec tutorial certificate above), and the five singles are traded in for a total of 500,000 SP for use on the Tranquility server.
- For everyone (and especially the FW crowd) - I like the idea of the Blue-vs-Red teams too. Perhaps ranks of some sort could be earned and rewarded, but it's getting late and I'm tired so I'll let someone else expand on that.
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