a newbie
Dissidence Dawn
C.L.O.N.E.
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Posted - 2014.03.15 07:28:00 -
[1] - Quote
As I sit back on the couch and look around, the display in front of me posts bounty after bounty. Each of them someone that has managed to **** someone off more than once. Most of the times they just happen to be someone of notoriety and of little consequence to direct actions taken by them.
Maybe they scammed someone, maybe they ransomed another, or they organized the collapse of your entire civilization. The point being the bounty system is there for a reason. It has been having some great effects as a result. Yes new players may not immediately find it but we (the community) have been helping CCP with requests through our CSMs for 'Small Things' here and there that help both old and new players alike. Maybe they can elevate knowledge of the bounties to new players.
I think the other problem is what you expect coming into an MMO that is hands off. A really GREAT anime on the topic of human nature in a rules free environment is Sword Art Online. Whether or not the art or genre fit your tastes, the detail the writers took in showing what they feel the chaos that would ensue seems a dead on read of people.
In the series, players are trapped in a virtual world, so players eventually become their ideal characters through behavior they would play in a normal game. You have Pkers, exploiters, people challenging sleeping players to a duel and moving their arms to accept duel and killing them. Some of them went so much as to scout as a neutral and be the target hunter for a murderous group of pkers. Some went the other way and were overly generous and blah blah hero stuff, and yet even more holed up in the cities and just 'existed'.
I think coming into a game that is hands off should be understood that it wouldn't feel right if we DIDN'T have people ransoming ships or extracting humility and tears from weaker people. Its not that I think its the greatest way to recruit players, but frankly its just as much a recruiting tool as it is a woe for new players. I have myself recruited far more people into EVE with the lure of violence and espionage than I have with mining and missions.
...um.. fire? |