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Idea for corps serving new players
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tigger digger
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2016-02-22 12:09:19 UTC
It would be nice to have an anchorable item that may be aggressed in highsec/lowsec without incuring a suspect or criminal timer. Call it a training beacon. I would use it for training new players in PvP, specifically targeting, managing range, orbiting, and activating modules in the process. It would be nice if it would have cruiser level HP, but have a ton of structure HPs that it regens to full every second, so it can't reasonably be killed.

Maybe require anchoring I, and it cannot be put within 1000K of gates/stations/POS/etc, so it ends up not being a decloak thing.

Just thinking out loud, here.
Iain Cariaba
#2 - 2016-02-22 12:41:24 UTC
Undock a brick tanked battleship and have them shoot you in it. There are a few ways to have them shoot you without Concord showing up.
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#3 - 2016-02-22 13:28:11 UTC
If you're training new players, couldn't you just take them to lowsec? Or duel them? Or turn off the stupid restriction on in corp aggro?
Donnachadh
United Allegiance of Undesirables
#4 - 2016-02-22 14:12:33 UTC
See the posts above for my reasons why I say not needed.
Daichi Yamato
Jabbersnarks and Wonderglass
#5 - 2016-02-22 14:38:38 UTC
Its also much easier for everyone to get on the test server with the new launcher.

EVE FAQ "7.2 CAN I AVOID PVP COMPLETELY? No; there are no systems or locations in New Eden where PvP may be completely avoided"

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Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#6 - 2016-02-22 19:01:14 UTC
Estella Osoka
Cranky Bitches Who PMS
#7 - 2016-02-22 22:15:42 UTC
Yo, there is this cool thing called the Test Server; also known as SISI. I hear it is a great place to test things.
Lugh Crow-Slave
#8 - 2016-02-23 05:54:29 UTC
.... what's wrong with just using a ship or hell is easy to get on sisi now go train them there

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The 16.8km Bubble
Arya Regnar
Darwins Right Hand
#9 - 2016-02-23 11:32:12 UTC
Turn off FF restriction.

PRAY YOU HAVE NO AWOXERS IN CORP.

Watch the ensuing !fun!

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tigger digger
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2016-02-23 17:25:18 UTC  |  Edited by: tigger digger
Lowsec has risks for new players they may not be ready for.

Turning off safety controls has other risks involved.

FF is an awoxers best friend.

Duels don't work in groups.

Test server is an option I hadn't considered.
SurrenderMonkey
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#11 - 2016-02-23 17:33:55 UTC
tigger digger wrote:
Lowsec has risks for new players they may not be ready for.


Do we really think it's helpful to infantilize new players like this? They're not children, they're grown-ass adults (or near enough) playing a video game. How ready does one need to be to lose a T1 frigate with a replacement cost coming to a whole 6 or 7 figures, at the outside?

Explain the risks to them. Make sure they don't bring anything they can't afford to lose, and that, as soon as they click undock, they should consider their ship to be dead already. If it makes it back alive, it's a gift. Then, go pewpew some ****.

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Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#12 - 2016-02-23 17:51:04 UTC
tigger digger wrote:
Lowsec has risks for new players they may not be ready for.

Turning off safety controls has other risks involved.

FF is an awoxers best friend.

Duels don't work in groups.

Test server is an option I hadn't considered.



Pathetic - perhaps your vocation is more geared towards crying about SP injectors?

Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .

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Daichi Yamato
Jabbersnarks and Wonderglass
#13 - 2016-02-23 18:18:36 UTC
I strongly recommend the test server for general dicking about. Cant be interrupted and everything costs 100 isk.

EVE FAQ "7.2 CAN I AVOID PVP COMPLETELY? No; there are no systems or locations in New Eden where PvP may be completely avoided"

Daichi Yamato's version of structure based decs
elitatwo
Zansha Expansion
#14 - 2016-02-23 20:46:03 UTC
Daichi Yamato wrote:
I strongly recommend the test server for general dicking about. Cant be interrupted and everything costs 100 isk.


...but even there they keep complaining about it Big smile

Oh and just spoken from a decade of experience, do not have them warp to ca1 in 6c-z49 at zero - unless they misbehave and you want to teach them a lesson they will never forget.

Eve Minions is recruiting.

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Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#15 - 2016-02-23 22:10:39 UTC
...how are your newbies not ready for lowsec? Ours are encoiuraged to move to null immediatley after the tutorial and never look back.
tigger digger
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#16 - 2016-02-24 12:06:44 UTC
It has been my experience that newbies right out of tutorial land lack the skills to do much in null sec.

Then again, I would imagine goons are constantly at war, so that would make hisec more dangerous.