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Zei Xeu
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Posted - 2006.12.06 21:05:00 -
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The answer to the question below is a term I have come up with called "Veteran Lock". It occurs in games when players who have been in the game longer have great advantages (not just advantages, not just knowledge but GREAT, MIGHTY OR HUGE advantages) over newer players of a game.
Bad cases of veteran lock can single handedly destroy a game. The result of allowing long time players of to have large game mechanic advantages over newer players of a game mathematically spells the end of the game. No one plays a game forever so subscriptions decline. Discouraging new players from playing the game means those numbers will diminish (much less grow).
Veterans who seek to inhibit new players seek the "Veteran Lock".
 Originally by: Lady Trade
one question to all you uber-cool "kill the carebears" ppl: how exactly do you suggest that a new player EVER earn enough money to actually start PvPing? I mean you need a huge amount of cash if you wanna be able to risk loosing a BS in PvP and you WILL loose many BSes when you start out making your first experiences with PvP... so somewhere your logic is flawed unless your suggesting that all newbies go buy ISK somewhere...
eve is already THE most newbie-unfriendly game ever created... i mean i was ganked in my effing newb-ship about 3h in to the game while completing a mission i got from my very first agent - that wasn't exactly a huge motivator to continue playing... if you now can't even fly a few missions to earn the money for you first frig without being griefed then i really am not amazed if a huge number of players simply stop playing after a few days.
the only realistic way for a new player to earn enough money for a BS is mission running or mining (which is more boring then pong) so i really don't see the logic of you guys.
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Zei Xeu
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Posted - 2006.12.06 21:49:00 -
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Originally by: Myyona
Thank God my mission running days are over and I got the standings I need.
If I had to work under these new conditions I would most likely quit.
Then what is the motivation for new players to even begin?
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Zei Xeu
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Posted - 2006.12.06 22:12:00 -
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Thank you for the info. My friend, my dad, my sister and her husband now know to look elsewhere for a game to play together.
Originally by: Miss Overlord
Originally by: Zei Xeu
Originally by: Myyona
Thank God my mission running days are over and I got the standings I need.
If I had to work under these new conditions I would most likely quit.
Then what is the motivation for new players to even begin?
despite the doomsday predictions eve is running at all tiem records - mission runners loosing the odd ship here and there or low and behold being in a gang going a level 4 mission in a multiplayer capacity as long as they are all in the same corp then they can also kill the solo intruder that balances up the thing a bit. As we know 0.8 systems have dodgy ISK bonuses on missions 0.5 systems have about 50% more and low sec even more a gruop of 4 is going to discourage a solo misison interruptor pilot anyway
The only thing being nerfed here is the solo player mentaility
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Zei Xeu
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Posted - 2006.12.07 19:51:00 -
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All I know is that, since it is so hard to get started now since newbs can't get missions done my buddy and I (and my family in other cities) won't be playing this game.
We had tried the trial accounts but not being able to do missions to get started is just too much hassle.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
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Zei Xeu
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Posted - 2006.12.07 21:03:00 -
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Originally by: Xoria Krint
Move all missions to lowsec?
Do any existing EVE players consider what brand spanking new players are supposed to do to get started in this game?
Do any existing EVE players even WANT new players in this game?
I'm beginning to think they don't.
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