What you're talking about is an education problem

The best you can do (aside from other players giving proper advice to newbies in the n00bcorps) is probably to throw even more Aura in there GÇö delayed lectures that are account-time limited (much like newbie help chat) that triggers the first time you try to buy any kind of slightly advanced skill, and which points out the cert recommendations and how they exist for a reason.

I said some random crap I didn't think through clearly enough... Sorry guys. Gold Plox!

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If you really care about growing the community, and helping to prevent foolish noobs suffering heinous losses and rage quitting, I suggest a focus on the social aspects of the game. ...

As some other earlier postrs pointed out: a change to the ship pre-requisits or the ship durability etc., would probably only create some alternative 'problem.'

Indeed. OP is falling into a classical trap of curing a symptome rather than illness.

Just put a red highlight around the fitting window if the character doesn't have all the recommendations.

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I recently took part in a NPC corp chat with a couple of month old player who was trying to fit not only multiple types of size guns to a dominix for level 2's, but also fitting both armour and shield tanks, while also attempting to both go active and buffer. Madness.

New players > people who care.

Game seems to be stacked in the favour of gankers and gratuitous destruction. I suspect that people like the way things are because it gives them more easy victims and battleship kills for their precious kill board.

My problem is that they can get into a battleship too quickly.

For battleships they should add the requirement Gunnery V, because the whole point of flying a battleship is to use large turrets, if you require Gunnery V then when they can finally fly the battleship then they are either 25 minutes to a few hours from using large turrets. That happened to me when I was a noob (on an alt), I got into the battleship then I realized i couldn't use large turrets for another 6 days, and I was like "fffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" and I got really mad. So Gunnery V should be a requirement for battleships.

[The newbie experience now is far easier then it ever was when I started, it practially rains free ships, skills and ISK in the Tutorials, and with an Epic Arc that anyone with 3 brain cells to rub together for ISK every few months, what more could you ask for?

I believe ships come with recomended certificates.

This should be better explained to new players.

Battle cruisers are amazing.

You know, when CCP removed the Learning Skills, there was one stand out issue they never addressed:

They were excellent poo filters/buffers.

Simply because they forced people to wait and learn patience before going off into the wider world of EVE. Anyone who couldn't handle flying around with basically no skills (well before they added the 3rd bloodline) never progressed past the first month as they'd quit. Even after they added higher starting skills and stats, the skills still presented a good filter.

Hence the reason now you seen people jumping into BS's as soon as they can without understanding them or really having the skills for them.

I recently took part in a NPC corp chat with a couple of month old player who was trying to fit not only multiple types of size guns to a dominix for level 2's, but also fitting both armour and shield tanks, while also attempting to both go active and buffer. Madness.

I have seen so many newbies getting ganked in their badly fit battleships then rage quitting it isn't even funny. It is just too easy for them to get into them with minimal skills and they spend too much ISK on them for their level.

Are you serious??????????

1.) Why exactly is a newb in a BS getting ganked? Either they are flying the BS out of highsec; either they flying a BS during a wardec; either they are stupidly shooting at ninja salvagers; or they are fitting a significant amount of bling to their BS's.
-- I do NOT believe the problem with a noob getting ganked in a BS has ANYTHING to do with them "quickly" skilling into the BS!!

2.) The skill tree is changing in the not too distant future to include Dessie IV and BC IV prior to BS.... so you'll get your wish that a pilot will have an extra day or two of training to skill into a BS. But why would you EVER require medium weapon V or what not for flying a BS? There are soooo many relevant skills to flying a BS semi-effectively, and Medium weapon V is NOT one of them.
-- Your skill suggestion is ridiculous, as the suggested skills don't improve your effectiveness in a BS, but just artificially increase the prerequisite training time.

3.) CCP added certificates to each Ship (including BSs), which show the recommended skills a pilot has for properly fitting and flying a ship. These clearly state solid recommendations, and far exceed your arbitrary and irrelevant skill requirements, as they can be ignored or utilized as each pilot sees fit. Certificate recommendations are the appropriate middle ground for guiding a new player on skilling into a ship!