Toobo
Project Fruit House
Solyaris Chtonium
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Posted - 2016.08.25 18:21:28 -
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I have an idea.
Start all new characters from NPC null. Maket eve as a survival game, where surviving and persisting are the central themes.
Let it be hard, pretty damn hard, for the new players to work their way through null and low to reach high sec. They will need to learn to navigate, study local, plan ahead, train up skills to fly cloakies if that helps. Let it take at least a month for an average new player to reach high sec without help.
When they arrive at high sec, their first visit to Jita, mission hubs, let it be a wonderous experience. They may live in the highsec bliss, but they got there through surviving and persisting - they've earned it, they may enjoy it, or maybe they want to go back to low and null, where it was so hard before, but now they are better equipped and better skilled and more knowledgeable.
I subbed into eve from trial account because it was hard and I had ***** blown up and got my ass kicked and podded and lost real SP and the nice styuffs seemed so far away and hard to reach - that made me sub, because it was clear trial period wasn't long enough to experience all that can be enjoyed in this crazy space.
Think about it -
A) player starts in high sec, does tutorials and a few missions and mines and wow cool I'm gonna sub man! Scenario...
vs.
B) player got his ass kicked so many tims it's not even funny, but he persisted and made it to high sec, and oh **** my trial runs out in a day but I've just got here! Let me reach for that credit card... and then a month later, 'hey I can fly this cool **** now', I wonder if I would fare better in low/null now, oh sub running out, ok credit card gogo!
What do you think is more likely?
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Toobo
Project Fruit House
Solyaris Chtonium
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Posted - 2016.08.26 08:14:05 -
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Beta, those details I think can be agreed on, and yes everyone should have basic idea of how bubbles, scrams and weapon timers work as early in their game career as possible, and it is reasonable to suggest that starters get reasonable access to noob gears and skill books.
I just feel that going through low/null should be part of the learning progress for new players. They don't have to live there permanently, but they should either start there or spend some time there early on to understand how these work (and also experience certain losses)
I mean even WoW took players through certain areas on the map with high chance of gank when new players progressed through quest lines to level up. It's funny how new players in eve start off in high sec and people can just stay there for years.
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