Saint Michaels Soul
Coreli Corporation
Mercenary Coalition
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Posted - 2016.04.11 13:48:41 -
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After getting involved in a Twitter conversation with a couple of people who think we've somehow, as a player base, "failed" this person, I felt the need to lay out, in a longer medium, why no-one has failed except for this player.
1. If you're afraid to chat or be social, who have you been chatting with? Was it the first few people that were talking loudly in your NPC corp? Was it the loud shouty people in Local? Perhaps, just perhaps you should look at their comments/posts and maybe use your basic intuition and social skills to establish that maybe these aren't the chaps for you. Let's say you like mining, why not have a look around the system you mine in and see who is doing a similar activity? Perhaps that's the soul mate you're looking for? Let's say you want to get started in solo PvP ... well chat to the people that kill you every time and ask their advice; Chances are that they have the same mindset to you. Like in real life, if you find that someone is a moron or *******, move on and find people you can get on with. With one single exception everyone I've ever had pvp fights with is happy to talk fits, tactics etc.
2. A lack of understanding of the game system is something only you can fix. The way you fix that is by research and asking questions. If you don't understand something like a bounty, look it up; In this case you'll find its a largely useless system which has been left to rot on the shelf. It has almost zero in-game effect, won't make anyone attack you and pretty much just puts a wanted tagline on your portrait. Some of the most philanthropic characters in the game have massive bounties; Look at Mike Azariah, Chribba etc. If you're not willing to look up information or engage with people (like in this thread) who are trying to help, you've got no hope. Eve is meant to be complex and it rewards people that understand that.
3. Being tough. Being prepared for setback, loss and humiliation in Eve and bouncing back from all of that will make you a good player. You will lose. Again and again. If you can't take someone putting a bounty on you for a laugh, how will you cope with losing your first 50 ships? How will you react when you're ganked? What about when the corp you've built for years has everything nicked by a trusted friend? What about when someone AWOXes your entire capital fleet? Get tough.
4. Approach everything in Eve like you would social encounters in RL. No-one is there to help you, unless that's their job, or they know you. There are lots of noob friendly organisations in Eve and you need to find them. Randomly talking to people in local, or in the NPC corps is akin to chatting to that insane drunk bloke who lives in a doorway down the road and shouts to themselves a lot - They might indeed know some things and have some interesting points, but they aren't the person you want to take advice from about how to live your life. The people most likely to be visible & chatty in the NPC corps are people that can't find a home anywhere "normal". Everyone else in the NPC corps that are quiet? They are hauling or industry alts. They won't talk to you because they are currently running at least 3 other clients and chatting to their actual mates in sane corps.
From running a 250 man noob focussed corp, you can tell the players that are likely to "make it" in New Eden from your first chat with them - They are the ones that ask non-stop questions about the game system, the ones that understand that someone taking the mickey is an opportunity to take the mickey back, not dissolve in tears at what the bad man said to me in a computer game. They are the ones who want to do stuff to see what happens. They are the ones with the funny killboards that wanted to try something. They are the ones that don't get put off by a challenge.
Everyone that's still playing eve, well done. You're the right kind of gamer.
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