How would you think about a one-time SP boost for new characters once they accomplish something?
Say, 50k unallocated SP for completing a meta opportunity "Take opportunities: fully complete one/two/three other opportunities"

So there is
- an incentive to do something with opportunities (learn actively), but it's not restricted to a specific area (you are not forced to learn combat or learn EVERYTHING to max out bonusses if you dont want to).
- new players would quickly be able to customize their character AFTER they learned at least a little bit about the game (so hopefully they don't waste the one-time bonus)

Like this very mutch. It will help new players to get a little better start. Its not so funny to buy 30 skillbooks at the first 3 days because everything that you want to try out is not learned yet.

Do chars that were created in the last week(s) get some kind of free skillpoints (maybe fading out the older the char is) to compensate ?

I could create a new char now and one new week and the one next week would be better then the char now. My buddy who startet last weekend will probably shoot himself if he hears this

Just saying.

One note: if you made your character in the last few days you will have less SP than people who created after Vanguard, that's not good! Some time soon after Vanguard (maybe a week or so) we will hand out 300k unallocated SP to all characters created in the two weeks leading up to Vanguard release. Sorry for having to wait a little but we gotchu.

What about those who do not want those skills injected? Do we simply ignore their wants and do it anyway?

Yes. I didn't train some things on my main and on alts because I didn't want them. I'm glad newbies are getting a starting bump; leave my years-old characters out of it.

Just because someone wants to drop a load of free **** that I don't need nor want in my living room doesn't mean I should welcome it graciously simply because it's free.

This is fundamentally wrong.
The faster they taste all activities... oh hell, who am I kidding? The faster they taste ratting and mining, the faster they say "this is not what I want". No, they will not jump into a frigate and go rocking the lowsec. They just quit.
I mean - yes, some will. But 90% or something live in highsec. Newbies are born in hisec. And they do what hisecmen do - mine and run missions. Unless you create some awesome PVE experience (and you dont) higher rate of skilling will mean only higher rate of newbies burnout.
The key to get active engaged players is to incorporate them into the community. This takes time. The more time you buy with that skill queue - the more chance they have.

Excellent step in the right direction, though I do feel there is some merit in Mag's request for some choosing of a profession to start. A guy who wants to play Eve and mine is probably not gonna want 1/8th of his SP in gunnery when it would better suit him in shields by far. Choice and the resulting consequences that follow are also important.

I hate to be a pain. I have created this character fairly recently. (About 1 month old). I am over 400k sp now, but many of the skills to be added to new pilots I don't have. 400k sp is quite a bit of training, which I would love to have had, but no use complaining about that now. Is it possible for you to maybe add all the new baseline skills to all pilots rather than a boost for the few select pilots who just missed the vanguard release?

So I created this account on the 12th of September, which is apparently 3 days to old to get the free sp? Seems a little harsh, maybe make it for all accounts created in September?

Other then that seems like a good change.

While I'm totally for increasing a newbro's starting SP, I think the path you've chosen isn't the best one.

When I first started a decade ago, I was a able to indirectly determine my starting skills by the choices I made during the character creation process. I started heavily combat oriented, just as I wanted to be. I didn't have "wasted" SP in industry or trade or w/e. This was a positive experience as a new player.

You now start every single player out the same, with the same default set of skills, like a prepackaged commodity, forcing their starting SP to be spread out amongst all the areas rather than the ones the player may actually want. This is too much like real life where I have to take classes at the uni that I have no interest in in order to get the degree in what I actually want to do.

Instead I would have implemented a system during character creation that let a player choose the areas they wanted to focus in. If a player was unsure they could still choose to be a generalist.



Very this.

You could implement it as an opportunity.

Opportunity: Getting your Pilot's License
Obtain a Pilot's License EXtension (PLEX) or purchase a subscription to obtain a one-time per account allotment of 300,000 freely allocatable skill points.

It seems like a decent enough spread although there's more emphasis on armour than shield, I realise those armour skills are also prereqs but it wouldn't hurt to add a few points into shield as well just to make it even/fair. It's the same thing for turrets vs missiles, yes more ships use turrets but that doesn't change the fact that this current allocation "punishes" someone for choosing to use them. Combined it effectively says "don't use shield tanking missile ships".


Then again it's just nuances, percentage point differences, but it does kinda stand out.