Sasha Nemtsov
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.10.05 05:06:37 -
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Aliana Heartborne wrote:
The problem with casual/social fleets like CASMA is that the skills are low for most people as they are new players, so a lot of the job falls to a few people, not just in terms of boosting but also helping the new people not leave in a rage because they get murdered at every corner. In my case i don't have the time to or energy to be active much, so for me personally ill just drop down to alpha clone most likely and do nothing but help people with information in terms of chat which really takes out a bit of the fun
The largest thing CCP fails to realise is that it is a social/casual fleets doesnt have any tools to help lessen the load of boosters and organizers, like we cant even see how much stuff how much a single person mines reliably as the fleet history log is a joke, and if you DC these horrible logs are lost as well because no autosaving like every other log.
Now CCP please improve the new player experience ;s
Hi Aliana, thanks for an interesting perspective. I note that you 'don't have the time...to be active much', which suggests that you belong to a group which I call 'casual but committed'. Despite assertions to the contrary in various corp descriptions, the EVE player base doesn't deal well with this type of player.
Your suggestions for tools for boosters seem sound to me. I hope CCP listens.
You feel you must 'drop down to Alpha' and provide a chat service? That's some of the most time-intensive stuff right there! Unless you mean to pop in for a few minutes each day. Also, I don't see how it can mitigate the fun if, by your own admission, the fun merely consists of sitting in space in Tarta and Tekaima while you are away at work, or whatever. But I may not be in possession of the complete picture. Help me out here!
I get that the proposed changes won't work for you, Aliana. But surely, if you're spending all this time helping new players, you can inspire at least some of them to train up boosting skills? Perhaps the new Porpoise will help there? And while you're at it, gank-avoidance skills, too.
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