You can't be your own boss and live in null. You must corp up and that means you no longer enjoy total freedom. If you're cool with that then there's no reason to not, at the very least, check it out. If you like playing alone, on your own schedule then null will never work for you.

It would seem to me that EVE is infinitely more difficult solo.

Fun fact: Test and the Goons, which both have (significant) representation in CSM6, are heavily newbie oriented alliances.

Fun fact: They are heavy oriented in scamming newbies. Good luck with joining goons or test without getting scammed, or spending endless time on a stupid forum to get invited.
Dont spread false informations in a thread about newbies and null.

...It would seem to me that EVE is infinitely more difficult solo.

Fun fact: They are heavy oriented in scamming newbies. Good luck with joining goons or test without getting scammed, or spending endless time on a stupid forum to get invited.
Dont spread false informations in a thread about newbies and null.

Fun fact: They are heavy oriented in scamming newbies. Good luck with joining goons or test without getting scammed, or spending endless time on a stupid forum to get invited.
Dont spread false informations in a thread about newbies and null.

......All time something for do for few hour and no worry CTA. No worry politic. No worry ego rubbish null sec.

You can't be your own boss and live in null. You must corp up and that means you no longer enjoy total freedom. If you're cool with that then there's no reason to not, at the very least, check it out. If you like playing alone, on your own schedule then null will never work for you.

Why would goons bother scamming nubs who have zero assets?

Fun fact: They are heavy oriented in scamming newbies. Good luck with joining goons or test without getting scammed, or spending endless time on a stupid forum to get invited.
Dont spread false informations in a thread about newbies and null.

new player aversion to null-sec.

I recently read, though for the life of me I cannot recall where, a quote that said to the effect; "Null-sec needs new blood. The past three years the same people have been fighting each other, just cycled around."What causes this? Why is it that the newer players do not get involved with null-sec?

This morning I got a wild hair up- well, you don't need the details, but suffice it to say, I was bored. I went on an adventure 86 jumps throughout Null/Low-sec. I witnessed good fights, ransoms, evaded gatecamps and bubbles. I met some pilots and bs was shot aplenty. I, in the span of a few hours, witnessed much more exciting things happening than can be said for empire space.This is where the real game was being played and in my opinion, the newer players need to experience this.

I have friends that are fps whores, and tabletop nerds, but when shown The Butterfly Effect trailer, they became interested in EVE. This idea that one can participate in massive conflicts that can see thousands of real people square off in border disputes, villainous raids, or wars of conquest is intriguing. Sov conflict, the idea of it, is what brings new players.


I hardly am influential, but if there were one thing I could charge CSM6 and CSM7 with, it would be to worry about the game's newest generation. Without new players the game will eventually die out.

I have a revolutionary idea... if most players choose to stay in hisec, make hisec the most interesting thing to do in game rather than try and shanghai them into playing nullsec *wink, wink*

Fini.

Dark, I read your post and I agree with some of your points. Sov bills are too damn high in general. The other points you make about a new corp/alliance making headway into Sov space can be fix by politics. Yes politics. There are Sov alliances out there that are I am sure a bunch of dastardly bastards who want no one else to hold Sov, but there are also a fair share that I am sure are open to diplomatic approach. No one can control all of 0.0.

That is why coalitions are formed. That is why alliances allow others into their space. I admitted earlier that I am new, but I have read about how in the past such-and-such alliance got kicked out of their space and this-or-that group shared space with them until they got back up on their feet.

I think in the end there are quite a few things wrong with null that need to be changed, and they were brought up in the winter minutes. Sov bills are retardedly(sic) expensive. Tech moons either need a rebalance or need to be tied in with Sov ownership in my opinion. However, these things can be worked around with perseverance, and determination.

I have a revolutionary idea... if most players choose to stay in hisec, make hisec the most interesting thing to do in game rather than try and shanghai them into playing nullsec *wink, wink*

The problem there is not with the game mechanics. The problem is the extremely large number of bears that constantly proclaim that living in null sec is impossible and the only way to play the game is to grind the same 10 minutes of PVE content over and over again in the safety net of high sec.