Sotar Lojac
Elite Space Dragons
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Posted - 2017.07.14 18:44:16 -
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To many drawbacks for new players to be invested in the game.
1. Miner bumping. More often than not the miners bumped are new players. Walk a mile in their shoes. You join Eve Online, You're not sure about any of the game mechanics but the one thing you are sure of is you need ISK. Mining is easy to setup but time consuming so they invest in mining believing this is the path to riches.
They stick it out and invest the time and money until they get a mining ship that cost 200Million plus ISK. Then out of the blue someone bumps their many hours of investment in a few secs with ship that cost 1Million or less isk. They feel like they have been kicked back to square one as they have spent every ISK they have to get the ship.
Its not that miner bumping is wrong. Its the fact that a ship that cost 1Million or less ISK can ruin them in a matter of seconds.
They should buff mining ships defense without messing up mining yield to allow concord to respond unless their has been a war dec. In what Universe should a ship that cost 200M plus ISK being killed by a ship that cost 1M ISK or less realistic.
Its only PvP if both parties can defend their ships. Other than that its just wrong.
2. Mission running.
You run the same few missions over and over and over. for very little pay until you reach level 4 anyway. Lets say they are Caldari and have been running missions for a while, the adverse standing they're going to get with the Minmatar and Gallente. will be a hindrance if they decide they want to run missions for the other factions to get some of their gear. Or if they start doing trade and other things. They are polly going to get shot down by the Gallente or Minmatar because their not aware that the negative standings will make this happen.
Simple solution has been the same for years. reduce the negative standing derived from running missions and provide more missions that you can repair your standing with the other factions in a more reasonable amount of time.
I could go on and list many other things but I don't have time.
Personally, I feel that the PvE side of Eve has been greatly neglected. Many new players become invested in the PvE side of the game and it should be supported as much as the PvP side of the game I think if the negative standings could be managed by players with less time invested in doing so, you would see more players going to PvP faster. Like FW other PvP activities.
I like to trade, mine, invent , produce , run exploration in WHs, NS, LS and would definitely do FW if there was a way to repair my standings from doing that activity in a more timely manner. The negative standing that I would get from FW would be a hugh drawback from doing all the other activities I like to do in Eve.
I think the way negative standings are set up is very restrictive to variety in the game as it stands now. This is my humble opinion.
So what do you all think? How can we make it better for the new players and retain them?
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