Not a candidate, but it's easy to abridge my stance:

Provide endgame content for hisec gameplay, add new solo/casual friendly features, add new gameplay venues through avatars and keep iterating the broken/aged/abandoned FiS mechanics.

Slogan: 10 years of the same brought old EVE so far, now it's time to teach her new tricks.

Yeah, highsec endgame content will surely engage and retain those new players.

In 50 words or less, what could you do as a CSM candidate that would help to engage and retain new players, and how would you go about enticing players who have left to come back?

EVE is notoriously noob-unfriendly, and I think a lot more needs to be done here. This means a better tutorial (helping them survive their first few days), making mentoring a profitable in-game profession (helping them survive their first months), and finding ways to hook new players into social groups as soon as possible (so they keep playing for years).

EVE is notoriously noob-unfriendly, and I think a lot more needs to be done here. This means a better tutorial (helping them survive their first few days), making mentoring a profitable in-game profession (helping them survive their first months), and finding ways to hook new players into social groups as soon as possible (so they keep playing for years).

How would you go about making Mentoring profitable?

There would have to be some sort of matchmaking system that matches mentors to noobs with similar interests / timezone, etc.

CCP has good stats on what % of trial accounts (of any particular age) convert to subscribed accounts. So lets say you agree to mentor a 3-day old noob, and CCP knows that the conversion rate is 10% (I'm just picking a round number here). You would put up a bond (say, 25M ISK). If the noob doesn't convert, you lose your 25M. If he does convert, then you get 200M, with bonus sweeteners at 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years.

You and your noobs would share a chat channel, etc.

If you can increase the subscription rate, you make money. If you can't, you lose money -- and the matchmaking feature would take note of that (and the reviews your noobs gave you) and raise your bond.

In order to do that, CCP should have a mean to identify and track unique account holders, else the mentoring program would become free money for usrs who already create many alt accounts.

So what? As long as they are paying for a subscription, the kickback for "successfully" mentoring them is just a marketing expense, no different from the various offers they already make (PLEX deals, etc.)

In order to engage and retain newbies, I'd want to be creating an environment where they are taken in by a well-organized corp early where they would be given things to do and successful ways to do them. This would include ships, advice, and goals.

In order to raise retired vets back from the dead I'd want to be throwing their friends into an interesting struggle. Nothing like a really good space story and a plea for help on whatever comms you still share to get people re-subbing.

New players and old come would come to Eve for the same reason . . .change. Make it new, make it NEWS and they come.

Encourage game features that make the game dynamic and don't cripple any single style be it carebear or pvp, both have their place.

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Malcanis' Law: Any proposal justified on the basis that "it will benefit new players" is invariably to the greater advantage of older, richer players.

In 50 words or less, what could you do as a CSM candidate that would help to engage and retain new players, and how would you go about enticing players who have left to come back?

There would have to be some sort of matchmaking system that matches mentors to noobs with similar interests / timezone, etc.

CCP has good stats on what % of trial accounts (of any particular age) convert to subscribed accounts. So lets say you agree to mentor a 3-day old noob, and CCP knows that the conversion rate is 10% (I'm just picking a round number here). You would put up a bond (say, 25M ISK). If the noob doesn't convert, you lose your 25M. If he does convert, then you get 200M, with bonus sweeteners at 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years.

You and your noobs would share a chat channel, etc.

If you can increase the subscription rate, you make money. If you can't, you lose money -- and the matchmaking feature would take note of that (and the reviews your noobs gave you) and raise your bond.

This is pretty close to what I was thinking, but was unsure as to how you'd go about negating the visceral fear suggestions like these induce from the mob, whom you'd preferably want backing you when presenting the idea to CCP.

Large alliances could exploit this a lot. I like it.

To answer the second question first:

"Old players" leave for two main reasons: the stuff they want to do doesn't work, and they want new stuff to do. CCP have done an awesome job of addressing the first problem over the last 3 expansions but they've only started to scratch the surface of the second.

The main obstacle in retaining new players is involving them in the player-generated content that makes EVE special. They don't need cotton wool or special privileges or candy. They need to be able to associate with the people who can help them have fun.

In as short amount of words as you can please answer the following: what could you do as a CSM candidate that would help to engage and retain new players, and how would you go about enticing players who have left to come back?

I am not going to suggest any mechanic, the all mighty devs can find a usefull system. I remember they promised us expansions like Apocrypha which brought a whole new playing field and its own way of life. Therefore I suggest;

Bring Jove

Think bigger: OPEN THE EVE GATE

Well I guess we'll need somewhere to run to...