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Carrie-Anne Moss
Brave Newbies Inc. Brave Collective
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Posted - 2015.07.21 00:38:36 -
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Tibo Paralian wrote:When did CCP ever said the changes were to increase new player retention? CSM Summer 2014 minutes. You can download pdf.
They said players that remain in NPC corps have a Drasticlly reduced retention rate.
One of their solutions to encourage corps to recruit players more and to make corps less scary was this.
Still wtf is my "exculde corps with FF-disabled, check box in corp search?
Ccp Lebowski said he agreed to add it but had to check with his team... Edit may have been winter minutes i duno. 2014 Csm minutes. Big round table on corps |
Carrie-Anne Moss
Brave Newbies Inc. Brave Collective
330
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Posted - 2015.07.21 00:39:49 -
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Carrie-Anne Moss wrote:Quote:Quote: Shailagh wrote: It says in the corp search, you can filter out all the evil FF-ON corps. Will you be giving us the option to filter out the risk-adverse FF-OFF corps? And only search for FF Enabled corps?? If not, why the disparity?
This was simply done in the same way that the current 'Exclude Corporations in Alliances' checkbox works, and was not intentionally meant to only provide one option and not the other. I agree with you on this, it might be best to give both options, and Ill see if the team agrees and if its feasible for Tiamat. CCP Lebowski | EVE Quality Assurance | Team Five-0 And for over half a year no reply. Guess it wasnt feasible for Tiamat release or ever since lol Wtf Lebowski? ETA on feasibility? |
Ripblade Falconpunch
Centurion Logistics
276
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Posted - 2015.07.21 01:59:34 -
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Carrie-Anne Moss wrote:Carrie-Anne Moss wrote:Quote:Quote: Shailagh wrote: It says in the corp search, you can filter out all the evil FF-ON corps. Will you be giving us the option to filter out the risk-adverse FF-OFF corps? And only search for FF Enabled corps?? If not, why the disparity?
This was simply done in the same way that the current 'Exclude Corporations in Alliances' checkbox works, and was not intentionally meant to only provide one option and not the other. I agree with you on this, it might be best to give both options, and Ill see if the team agrees and if its feasible for Tiamat. CCP Lebowski | EVE Quality Assurance | Team Five-0 And for over half a year no reply. Guess it wasnt feasible for Tiamat release or ever since lol Wtf Lebowski? ETA on feasibility?
@CCP_Lebowski - also requesting feasibility of CAM being permabanned. Thanks. |
Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local Break-A-Wish Foundation
2825
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Posted - 2015.07.21 09:45:41 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote: Turns out, people join this game for the conflict that is the game's main selling point, not to chew on rocks in silence until they quit.
But I must be able to grind intensely repetitive activities over and over for hours with no goal or purpose beyond increasing the number in my wallet and gaining better gear to make this number increase faster. Other MMOS have taught me that this is what I must do and all in-game interruptions are griefing if not cyber bullying and attempt to disuade me from this are attempts to "force me to play your way". Subsequently unsolicited interactions with other players should be totally impossible. |
Lucas Kell
Internet Terrorists SpaceMonkey's Alliance
6410
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Posted - 2015.07.21 10:41:58 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:Turns out, people join this game for the conflict that is the game's main selling point, not to chew on rocks in silence until they quit. Actually, the stats show that at least 3 times as many players join for "levelling their raven", they just leave unfulfilled.
Vimsy Vortis wrote:So I use the corp advertisement search function to look for people to declare war on. If a corp has Area of Operation: highsec and friendly fire set to illegal then it's a pretty clear indicator that they aren't going to be able to defend themselves.
Relying on a mechanical switch to make you safe, rather than using good recruitment practices and not presenting an attractive target expresses how little you trust your members and how little effort you're willing to put in to protecting them and also makes it apparent that you have things worth messing with.
It's basically a "I can't protect myself, if you shoot at me I won't shoot back." Flag.
Edit: like Valkin said, it indicates a mentality. The type of people who are unwilling to lift a finger in defense of themselves or their corpmates. I find this the be the most hypocritical part of these types of threads. You guys bang on about "the carebears" while you are purposely picking targets that don't fight back. you're as much of a carebear as they are, and what you want is low risk, no-challenge gameplay.
The awox change was put in to remove the almost entirely enforce restriction preventing people running highsec corps from recruiting new players. I don't think anyone seriously expected floods of noobs to be pouring in, but it's a start in the right direction. The problem is there's still so much more to do, because as it stands, the arrival into the game puts you straight into the firing line of the players who want nothing more than to harvest tears from easy targets, and that's no fun for new players.
Highsec should be pretty damn safe. There, I said it. That's what highsec is. The fact that you guys want to hide in the safety of highsec yet whine when others want to do the same is ridiculous. All you want is to demonstrate your enormous power over noobs. It's like walking into a playschool punching kids in the face to prove you're the strongest.
The biggest problem is that EVE already has that stigma attached to it. It's spent so long attracting trolls who want the freedom to beat up noobs and pat themselves on the back that the game is filled with those types of players and people know it. Mainstream gamers just aren't interested in joining as some reddit poster's fodder. And I know, I know, the themepark crowd aren't welcome here, EVE is a niche game, etc. If they aren't careful though it's going to niche itself out of existence.
Personally I have no problem with a bunch of players coming in from WoW and hanging around safely shooting red triangles while paying subs so that CCP have more cash to spend on improving the game. Since I don't sit around stations in highsec crying about "the carebears", it's irrelevant what they do there.
Anyway, that's my 0.50. Enjoy the inevitable wardec changes and the entosis links that come with them.
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Omar Alharazaad
Lords.Of.Midnight The Devil's Warrior Alliance
2176
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Posted - 2015.07.21 10:53:13 -
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*shrug* I've never had a hauler or barge jacked in high sec, ever. I don't drive them much anymore, but I did for years. I've flown under wardec for a bit over a year now, with a few short weeks respite... I haven't been seal-clubbed for having the audacity of undocking yet.
I know for a fact I'm not lucky. I'm paying attention to my surroundings and playing like it's NOT safe. Strangely this seems to work to some degree or another.
A certain amount of fear is a healthy thing, as it can keep you alert and cautious. Too much is just toxic though. I'm not going to weigh in on the various playstyles, as I do have no problem with folks playing the game how they like. This includes the 'psycho' gankers, the 'warmongering' mercs, and the warm fuzzy carebears doing their carebear things. Hell, I used to be one.
I simply don't feel that high sec is supposed to be quite as safe as you do. That mentality, ironically enough, has kept ME fairly safe in my time here... so I'm sticking with it.
Come hell or high water, this sick world will know I was here.
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Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local Break-A-Wish Foundation
2827
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Posted - 2015.07.21 11:37:39 -
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Guys let's totally butcher the game and reduce it's appeal to the niche audience that has kept the game alive up until this point in an attempt to appeal to the more conventional MMO audience!
This is a totally sweet idea because even though traditional MMO players normally migrate between games as those MMOs go f2p then die even though they have huge budgets and massive hype they will somehow stick with EVE in the long term.
Oh wait, that's a ******** idea. |
Aoife Fraoch
Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic
95
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Posted - 2015.07.21 12:15:06 -
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Vimsy Vortis wrote:Guys let's totally butcher the game and reduce it's appeal to the niche audience that has kept the game alive up until this point in an attempt to appeal to the more conventional MMO audience!
This is a totally sweet idea because even though traditional MMO players normally migrate between games as those MMOs go f2p then die even though they have huge budgets and massive hype they will somehow stick with EVE in the long term.
Oh wait, that's a ******** idea.
Pretty much this. The last thing CCP needs is for EVE to join that long list of games failing to WoW before switching to F2P.
Making it more like the other games out there isn't how eve managed to stay one of the few games to have the audacity to charge a monthly fee and get away with it for so long in the current market. |
Tibo Paralian
Pyre Falcon Defence and Security Multicultural F1 Brigade
52
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Posted - 2015.07.21 12:46:58 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:It's like I always said.
Meanwhile, I was knocking off fifteen corps a month at my prime...
I may be mistaken, but are the elite highsec pvpers crying about not being able to awox random corps of their choice?
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Lucas Kell
Internet Terrorists SpaceMonkey's Alliance
6412
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Posted - 2015.07.21 12:57:21 -
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Vimsy Vortis wrote:Guys let's totally butcher the game and reduce it's appeal to the niche audience that has kept the game alive up until this point in an attempt to appeal to the more conventional MMO audience!
This is a totally sweet idea because even though traditional MMO players normally migrate between games as those MMOs go f2p then die even though they have huge budgets and massive hype they will somehow stick with EVE in the long term.
Oh wait, that's a ******** idea. First off that used up argument falls apart when you realise that WoW is nearly as old as EVE with a significantly higher playerbase. FF11 is older than EVE, has higher subs than EVE (as far as can be seen) and that's even up against their own sequel as competition. MMOs fail for many reasons but it's clearly not just "themepark = dead".
That said, I'm not suggesting that EVE become a themepark, but it shouldn't go full hog the other way either, catering exclusively to people who want nothing more than to pretend they are macho by beating up newbies and harvesting their tears. There's plenty of room for EVE to have a whole range of appeal, from players who want to shoot red triangles to those that want to live in the depths of nowhere where every day is a new challenge. It's about working the mechanics so that all of those things are actually feasible.
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Omar Alharazaad
Lords.Of.Midnight The Devil's Warrior Alliance
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Posted - 2015.07.21 13:06:40 -
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I don't really see much crying here so much as the pointing out of the failure of a measure that was intended to do a thing in doing that thing. It didn't work, and now a thing that was very much EVE and EVE alone has been made to suffer in vain. AWOX'es still will happen, but the age of the safari has been nearly made extinct.
Come hell or high water, this sick world will know I was here.
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Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local Break-A-Wish Foundation
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Posted - 2015.07.21 13:13:08 -
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The answer to a thing not working because the problem it was meant to fix isn't even real is to do more of the same thing, preferably even harder to fix the same non-existent problem.
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Lucas Kell
Internet Terrorists SpaceMonkey's Alliance
6412
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Posted - 2015.07.21 13:25:04 -
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Omar Alharazaad wrote:I don't really see much crying here so much as the pointing out of the failure of a measure that was intended to do a thing in doing that thing. It didn't work, and now a thing that was very much EVE and EVE alone has been made to suffer in vain. AWOX'es still will happen, but the age of the safari has been nearly made extinct. But then even that blog post states it, the number of people it's affected is minimal. Whether it's had much of an effect or not (hard to tell considering it being summer and there being a sov overhaul, both of which affects subs significantly) is mostly irrelevant. It was a pretty weird thing to have in place anyway. It was good back before there were ways to initiate legal combat, so people in corps could practice fights, but since dueling became a thing, it's solely been there for mind-numbingly easy awoxing. I like that people have to put a little bit of effort in now. I was always one for "STEAL EVERYTHING!" rather than "shoot orca - run away giggling" anyway.
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Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium. CODE.
13744
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Posted - 2015.07.21 13:48:48 -
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Lucas Kell wrote:Actually, the stats show that at least 3 times as many players join for "levelling their raven", they just leave unfulfilled.
No, that's just what the deeply flawed NPE pushes them into doing.
If people really did join this game to shoot at red crosses, there wouldn't be such massive spikes in newbies after a newsworthy capital fleet battle, and such.
People join for conflict. The game fails to give it to them, so they eventually quit.
"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
One of ours, ten of theirs.
Best Meltdown Ever.
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Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium. CODE.
13744
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Posted - 2015.07.21 13:50:39 -
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Vimsy Vortis wrote:Guys let's totally butcher the game and reduce it's appeal to the niche audience that has kept the game alive up until this point in an attempt to appeal to the more conventional MMO audience!
This is a totally sweet idea because even though traditional MMO players normally migrate between games as those MMOs go f2p then die even though they have huge budgets and massive hype they will somehow stick with EVE in the long term.
Oh wait, that's a ******** idea.
You forgot the part about the graveyard of dead MMOs who also tried to cheapen and cazualize their core gameplay.
"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
One of ours, ten of theirs.
Best Meltdown Ever.
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Lucas Kell
Internet Terrorists SpaceMonkey's Alliance
6412
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Posted - 2015.07.21 14:25:08 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:Lucas Kell wrote:Actually, the stats show that at least 3 times as many players join for "levelling their raven", they just leave unfulfilled. No, that's just what the deeply flawed NPE pushes them into doing. The NPE shows you the basics of the non player part of the game, it hardly pushes you into a career in PvE. I think it's pretty easy to see why MMOs players would come to a game with the aim of playing it like a "normal" MMO. And it fails to deliver that because they have neglected the depth of PvE for so long.
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:If people really did join this game to shoot at red crosses, there wouldn't be such massive spikes in newbies after a newsworthy capital fleet battle, and such. Of course there would. It really doesn't matter what the bulk of people come to the game for, if it makes international news and hits non-gaming news sites, you're going to see people come to check it out. I'm pretty sure the same happened with the collapse of one of the big EVE banks, which had nothing to do with shooting people.
Kaarous Aldurald wrote:People join for conflict. The game fails to give it to them, so they eventually quit. I disagree. People come here for a multitude of reasons. Some come for conflict, some to level their raven, some to explore some space, some for a mix, and so on. I can't imagine many people come here to be blown up within their first week and trolled by a bunch of guys bored of 4chan. I'm a big supporter of people being able to choose more when they start, such as being dumped in null or lowsec, and I've even suggested before the idea of giving people better starting skills and a handful of PvP fitted ships to begin with, but there still needs to be viable choices of how to play, including levelling your raven in relative safety. Nuking highsec so that people have to run into scrubs like you who want to feel big by winning against complete rookies is not what I'd consider a good direction.
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Lan Wang
V I R I I Ineluctable.
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Posted - 2015.07.21 14:28:55 -
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i dont think people know what they want when they come to eve, they find out what they want when they start playing, which the npe will influence that descision, unless you come to pvp then they are given no real help into getting that, basically thrown to the curb and told to read and get over it.
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Lucas Kell
Internet Terrorists SpaceMonkey's Alliance
6412
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Posted - 2015.07.21 14:44:06 -
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Lan Wang wrote:i dont think people know what they want when they come to eve, they find out what they want when they start playing, which the npe will influence that descision, unless you come to pvp then they are given no real help into getting that, basically thrown to the curb and told to read and get over it. You say that, but multiple parts of the NPE are around PvP mechanics. They can't put actual PvP into the NPE because there's no people sitting around ready to be part of a tutorial. It doesn't tell you how to use LP, harvest gas or research blueprints either. Whatever you get into when you arrive is going to require some level of reading up. Do you really think PvP would be much more appealing if you arrived, had no protection, got blown up by people far more knowledgeable about the game then you then got laughed at and insulted in local for being terrible? Most people's reaction to that exact thing tells me that people wouldn't find it very entertaining. And that's what EVE is supposed to be, it's entertainment, not a career choice.
The thing is, many of us vets have the same story. We came to EVE, started doing carebearing and later found our way into the rest of the game. Yet a new player arrives and tries to do carebearing and apparently that's not allowed, they need to be instantly and repeatedly killed, that's the only way they'll ever be able to play EVE.
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Mobadder Thworst
Noob Farmers Bad Neighbors.
494
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Posted - 2015.07.21 14:44:22 -
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The elitist idea that we shouldn't club defenseless new players is killing this game.
If you haven't looked, check out the charts on the posted pages. The game is dying.
The crackdown on EULA violations started about a year before the new crimewatch rules hit. It lines up with the charts that show the decline of the game. My friends mostly quit before the crimewatch even went into effect...
In 2011 you could get a fight in Akiainavas (noob system) anytime you wanted. If you were a new player there, you could watch fights, take fights, or participate as you saw fit.
There were frequently multiple baiters outside station with whom you could play. Some were noobs, some were barely able to beat noobs, and some were very skilled. The local chat was full of arguments, smack talk, etc...
Ultimately, it was mean, it was funny, it was stupid... But it was content.
Whether you logged off happy or mad, you were entertained.
Baiting is now dead. Akiainavas is now silent. Local chat is empty and there is nothing but ships going about their mission activities in perfect solitude. New players don't log in and encounter fights, wrecked ships, chaos, and smack talk.
They encounter only repetitive low-quality NPC content.
We aren't retaining new players because we're preventing them from experiencing the brutality that made Eve great.
The elitist attitude that only inferior players and bad people kill noobs is destroying the noob experience. That's why retention is going down.
Our noobs are neither happy nor angry when they log out. Evidence suggests they're not even interested.
If they would just roll pvp and baiting mechanics back to 2011 and let us fight in noob systems this whole thing could turn around.
I think CCP is going to go down in a big feel-good nerf cycle.
I'm about to add my name to the un-subs once again. The current war dec mechanics are a shadow of what they once were. I miss baiting and I'm bored. I think our noobs are too.
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Lucas Kell
Internet Terrorists SpaceMonkey's Alliance
6412
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Posted - 2015.07.21 14:54:40 -
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Mobadder Thworst wrote:If you haven't looked, check out the charts on the posted pages. The game is dying. Gäó
Mobadder Thworst wrote:In 2011 you could get a fight in Akiainavas (noob system) anytime you wanted. If you were a new player there, you could watch fights, take fights, or participate as you saw fit. You still can fight in that system, you just can't kill noobs. If you see me in that system for example you can freely go nuts firing at me and no amount of petitions is going to get you in trouble. Feel free to fight vets there any time. I'd check, but I'm pretty sure you'd get away with fighting noobs too if you sorted them out some isk for their stuff and actively taught them while fighting (perhaps even just reducing to hull and explaining how they could have avoided that). The rules are there to stop people showing up, ganking people on their first flight and laughing in their faces.
Mobadder Thworst wrote:I'm about to add my name to the un-subs once again. The current war dec mechanics are a shadow of what they once were. I miss baiting and I'm bored. I think our noobs are too. Can I have your stuff? I'll distribute it to noobs.
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Mobadder Thworst
Noob Farmers Bad Neighbors.
494
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Posted - 2015.07.21 14:58:52 -
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Lucas Kell wrote:Mobadder Thworst wrote:If you haven't looked, check out the charts on the posted pages. The game is dying. Gäó Mobadder Thworst wrote:In 2011 you could get a fight in Akiainavas (noob system) anytime you wanted. If you were a new player there, you could watch fights, take fights, or participate as you saw fit. You still can fight in that system, you just can't kill noobs. If you see me in that system for example you can freely go nuts firing at me and no amount of petitions is going to get you in trouble. Feel free to fight vets there any time. I'd check, but I'm pretty sure you'd get away with fighting noobs too if you sorted them out some isk for their stuff and actively taught them while fighting (perhaps even just reducing to hull and explaining how they could have avoided that). The rules are there to stop people showing up, ganking people on their first flight and laughing in their faces. Mobadder Thworst wrote:I'm about to add my name to the un-subs once again. The current war dec mechanics are a shadow of what they once were. I miss baiting and I'm bored. I think our noobs are too. Can I have your stuff? I'll distribute it to noobs.
No. My stuff goes with my account.
I still hold onto the hope that CCP will wake up before the game dies.
As for your statement about fighting vets... It's not accurate.
The last time I got petitioned there I was baiting against a guy in a scorpion. He undocked in a kestrel and I killed it in what I expected to be a fight. When I saw it was unfit, I figured it was a petition gank.
Without noobs for cannon fodder, there are no new pvpers or vets. Baiting is dead... And a substantial quantity of entertainment and content went with it. |
Lucas Kell
Internet Terrorists SpaceMonkey's Alliance
6413
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Posted - 2015.07.21 15:21:27 -
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Mobadder Thworst wrote:As for your statement about fighting vets... It's not accurate. Any fighting in a noob system without a war dec is petition able.
The last time I got petitioned there I was baiting against a guy in a scorpion. He undocked in a kestrel and I killed it in what I expected to be a fight. When I saw it was unfit, I figured it was a petition gank. If the character is an old character, they can petition all they want, no action would be taken. If you blew me up in a rookie ship on the undock they would probably give me a warning for wasting their time if I petitioned it.
Mobadder Thworst wrote:Without noobs for cannon fodder, there are no new pvpers or vets. Baiting is dead... And a substantial quantity of entertainment and content went with it.
Back when the subscriber count was climbing, the game was really hard. They gave you a kestrel and told you to kill Gallente.
Eve has become easy... And easy games aren't compelling. So here's the crux of it. Your problem isn't that newbies don't get to see fights, it's that you can't sit there ganking noobs with ease. If you want a fight on an undock, head to Jita or Amarr and go suspect, you'll get one. But that's not what you want is it? You want a day old player with no clue what he's doing so you can guarantee a win.
Simply put, the game is better without you.
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Mobadder Thworst
Noob Farmers Bad Neighbors.
495
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Posted - 2015.07.21 15:25:11 -
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Lucas Kell wrote:Mobadder Thworst wrote:As for your statement about fighting vets... It's not accurate. Any fighting in a noob system without a war dec is petition able.
The last time I got petitioned there I was baiting against a guy in a scorpion. He undocked in a kestrel and I killed it in what I expected to be a fight. When I saw it was unfit, I figured it was a petition gank. If the character is an old character, they can petition all they want, no action would be taken. If you blew me up in a rookie ship on the undock they would probably give me a warning for wasting their time if I petitioned it. Mobadder Thworst wrote:Without noobs for cannon fodder, there are no new pvpers or vets. Baiting is dead... And a substantial quantity of entertainment and content went with it.
Back when the subscriber count was climbing, the game was really hard. They gave you a kestrel and told you to kill Gallente.
Eve has become easy... And easy games aren't compelling. So here's the crux of it. Your problem isn't that newbies don't get to see fights, it's that you can't sit there ganking noobs with ease. If you want a fight on an undock, head to Jita or Amarr and go suspect, you'll get one. But that's not what you want is it? You want a day old player with no clue what he's doing so you can guarantee a win. Simply put, the game is better without you.
You can't see the big picture through your certainty. No, I'm not excited about killing noobs.
Your rhetoric( and its equivalent) will kill this game.
I hope someone at CCP learns to see through it. |
Lucas Kell
Internet Terrorists SpaceMonkey's Alliance
6413
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Posted - 2015.07.21 15:48:41 -
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Mobadder Thworst wrote:You can't see the big picture through your certainty. No, I'm not excited about killing noobs.
Your rhetoric( and its equivalent) will kill this game.
I hope someone at CCP learns to see through it. Mobadder Thworst wrote:Without noobs for cannon fodder, there are no new pvpers or vets. Baiting is dead... That's you. Right there. Claiming that noobs need to be "cannon fodder". If you really believed that noobs seeing fights was helpful and wanted to push that you could, by arranging for players who know what they are doing to fight outside rookie stations without engaging noobs, but that's obviously not what you want.
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Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local Break-A-Wish Foundation
2833
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Posted - 2015.07.21 16:11:15 -
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You realize that people don't play the game to retain newbies, right? It is not the responsibility of players to stage fleet fights at our own expense just to entertain new players.
Combat in highsec should be an organic thing that happens as a result of normal gameplay, not something staged pretend event for the entrainment of newbies.
When newbies see people fighting in highsec it's entirely common for them to ask what the heck is going on and why all those people are shooting each other. "It's actually just a pretend battle we're putting on as a show" is not a good answer. |
Lucas Kell
Internet Terrorists SpaceMonkey's Alliance
6414
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Posted - 2015.07.21 16:20:58 -
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Vimsy Vortis wrote:You realize that people don't play the game to retain newbies, right? It is not the responsibility of players to stage fleet fights at our own expense just to entertain new players. I'm well aware, but he's claiming that newbies don't stay because he's not fighting outside rookie stations anymore, so the most obvious fix is for him to do that again.
Vimsy Vortis wrote:Combat in highsec should be an organic thing that happens as a result of normal gameplay, not something staged pretend event for the entrainment of newbies. Indeed it should. Hunting down newbies specifically because they are easy targets isn't really organic though, is it?
Vimsy Vortis wrote:When newbies see people fighting in highsec it's entirely common for them to ask what the heck is going on and why all those people are shooting each other. "It's actually just a pretend battle we're putting on as a show" is not a good answer. Don't say that then, come up with a good reason. Alternatively he could live in and around that space and annoy people into wardeccing him and hunting him down. Naturally noobs should encounter him fighting. Whatever the answer is, it's not "lift the restrictions on rookie systems so I can gank day old noobs for kicks".
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Posted - 2015.07.21 16:53:19 -
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I'm never going to fabricate a lie to tell to newbies to trick them 8nto thinking the game is more interesting than it is. Also you can't annoy people in or around new player systems, they ban you for that. |
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Vimsy Vortis wrote:I'm never going to fabricate a lie to tell to newbies to trick them 8nto thinking the game is more interesting than it is. Also you can't annoy people in or around new player systems, they ban you for that. They only ban you for doing it to newbies. Nothing stops you moving to a newbie system then annoying POH for example.
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Posted - 2015.07.21 17:52:10 -
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No, they don't. They will literally warn/ban you for being suspect flagged in a rookie system if anyone petitions you. regardless of whether or not you even shoot at anyone.
The whole issue came up ages ago when Arnon was declared a rookie system because it's near by to fairly active lowsec, is a minor market hub, has many large ore belts and has non-rookie agents in system. Initially CCP stated that you could do pretty much whatever so long as you didn't target "rookies" and then people started getting bans and warnings for blowing up hulks and tengus. People then asked what the hell a rookie was, the GMs then basically lost their ****, told everyone not to try and game the rules and "there are other ways to kill people so don't be suspect flagged!!" Since then they've essentially been enforcing zero tolerance and also extending it to duels and suicide ganking.
You're welcome to go try it, I'll pass though. |
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Posted - 2015.07.21 17:56:12 -
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Vimsy Vortis wrote:No, they don't. They will literally warn/ban you for being suspect flagged in a rookie system if anyone petitions you. regardless of whether or not you even shoot at anyone.
The whole issue came up ages ago when Arnon was declared a rookie system because it's near by to fairly active lowsec, is a minor market hub, has many large ore belts and has non-rookie agents in system. Initially CCP stated that you could do pretty much whatever so long as you didn't target "rookies" and then people started getting bans and warnings for blowing up hulks and tengus. People then asked what the hell a rookie was, the GMs then basically lost their ****, told everyone not to try and game the rules and "there are other ways to kill people so don't be suspect flagged!!" Since then they've essentially been enforcing zero tolerance and also extending it to duels and suicide ganking.
You're welcome to go try it, I'll pass though.
That pretty much describes my experience.
My post have nothing to do with a desire to shoot noobs. I just think we're ruining the game for them and us. |
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