Black Pedro
Yammerschooner
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Posted - 2015.02.02 14:22:02 -
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William Viper wrote:HighSec miners are not the main victims of CODE or whatever kind of HighSec gankers.
What about new players? Players who recently joined EVE? Doing some missions, gathering some ore in the belts?
How many of those already quit playing EVE because they got shot by "pirates" while moving to Jita in their first industrial?
What EVE Online needs are new players.
Players who stay with us (!) in New Eden.
Players who spend their money for PLEX and populate our universe.
How can we achieve this?
1st proposal: no offensive action against other players in HighSec should be possible.
No shooting at them, no targeting, no jamming, no whatever.
2nd proposal: buff CONCORDE. They should be everywhere in HighSec and destroy every capsuleer who targets an other player.
You think that's too extreme? Think about the decrease in the number of players who quit playing EVE within their first week because they got ganked in HighSec.
Perhaps you should make this proposal in the Features and Ideas subforum where it can be properly addressed.
I was going to pull out the standard response about what kind of game this is, the CCP Falcon oratory and the like, but I think I will just say that if you think this is possible without breaking much of the sandbox that makes Eve so unique in the MMO game space, you are sadly mistaken.
And what is the point of mollycoddling new players to the reality of what type of game this is? At some point they will have to get use to their ship exploding - this is a competitive PvP sandbox after all. Eventually they will do something, lose a ship and then quit. If anything, we should take the opposite approach and not let players leave the starting tutorials until they have lost a dozen ships to other new players in PvP, some of them unexpectedly while they are doing something else. That is much more likely to get players used to loss, and soften the blow when they unexpectedly lose that first ship to another player.
Sabriz Adoudel for CSM 10 is a good idea.
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