Hi, i started playing Eve 6 days ago. I really like the game so far, everything execpt one simple thing.
I joined a new player friendly corperation, called The Green Mouse. I meet experienced players who has helped me alot, and I think I have a good grasp of the game so far. I'd consider myself a fairly good player, I'm now able to help other new players in my corp with various tasks that they havent learned about yet. I've been running missions and anomalies most of my time in Eve, both solo and with my corporation members, which has been fun.
This is where the fun stops. I'm not going to complain about cirtain ships being overpowered, I'm not complaining about being killed by other players, and I'm not complaining about corporation being able to wage war against other corperations. What I'm going to complain about about new players like me being an easy target in wars.
I'll give you some quick examples from my experience in Eve
- We're at war at the moment against a small corperation with a small corporation, they declared war on us, no reason given.
- I'm a 6 days old character, which means i've had about 144 hours of skill training.
- At the moment I'm hiding in a spacestation from a player with 3 years experience. This guy has about 26280 hours of skill training, and he decided to declare war against my corporation.
- His flying a ship called Vagabond, it would take me 67 days to learn to fly that ship, and then I still need to train to use the modules.
I'm not saying this player is unbeatable or anything, im sure that if we gathered enough players from the corp we could take him down. But I still have no chance against him 1v1.
- He could be a ******** 11 year old boy with only 1 arm and two fingers on his only hand, and he would still ba able to beat me 99 out of a 100 times in a 1v1 duel, which i technically didnt agree to. All he needs to do is scramble my warp drive and activate his guns, and then I would be dead.
So my point is that there should be some kind of new player benefit. I'm not talking about giving us +100% hit points and damage, nothing like that. But I would like not to be a target of his. It is not a fair fight.
I know a lot of you will say things like:
- "The dont join such a corp"
- "Then log off"
- "You have no idea how hard it was in the early days of Eve"
- "If you dont like the game then leave"
I'm thinking a solution where new players would be "out of bounds" for more experienced players, maybe 6 months or older. Ofcourse everyone could still attack us, but concord would still interfere. If the less experienced player attacked the experienced player concord would not interfere, war like it is today.
The main issue is that when the war targets is online i cant be out of the spacestation if they are after me, i will lose my ship, and ships arent easily replaced in the start. - I know the first rule of Eve, dont fly ships you cant afford to lose, I can afford to lose this ship, and i wouldnt mind loseing it to another guy, with 6 days experience.
They started this war, we did not agree to be the targets, and most of our corporation members doesnt have a chance against these guys. So basicly they could just aswell fly around and gank us without us being at war, the war is just a cheap way of avoiding concord doesnt punish them for their actions!
I have a quote from a GM, here is the link:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=230994&p=3He said:
- "In all seriousness, do NOT try and game the system to go after rookies. We do not care how well you argue or how well your internet lawyering skills are. We do NOT allow this and the spirit of this principle trumps any and all other rules about game play we have. If you do this and your argument is "but this rule or this mechanic states..." then stop right there and do not bother; we WILL hammer down on that. No exceptions."
We can fully understand that you wish to use the various PVP options available to you, however such activity may draw unwanted attention of new players towards you, so we strongly suggest you move such activity out of the 25 solar systems currently listed and move it to any of the 7,674 other solar systems available to you.
I know that I'm not in one of the 25 solar systems, but i dont think that makes me fair game for a player who has been playing for 3 years. I still consider myself a rookie, which is why i joined a "new player friendly corporation"
First welcome to Eve, I'm a firm believer of baptism by fire for new players. You should leave your corp and join RvB and jump right into PvP, you won't regret it. Don't become a target/victim, become the predator. you'll have more fun. Good Luck.
