Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This was just an idea that I happened to throw out to my fellow Corporation members regarding ways to encourage corporations to take up newbies - or at least to soften the impact of having to equip and train new players. It is hoped that, were this to be taken up or at least modified, it would encourage less-wealthy corporations to assist the new players that CCP are hoping to attract to the game.

The idea is simple:

Once a new player pays their first month's subscription/PLEXes for the first time, the corporation that the new player belongs to gets some ISK and/or equipment so that they can assist that new player, and help them to develop over time.

As with most ideas of this nature, there are a number of potential ways that this could be exploited (and would be exploited) by the players of EVE. Just for one example, inviting newcomers to your Corp and as soon as you have their development money, kick them from the corp.

I do believe that CCP could manage to create a system like this that would prevent or limit how much the newbies can be exploited, and that would allow smaller and less well-funded corporations to bring newbies into the fold, and to be paid for their time and effort in training them and teaching them how to play the game effectively.

Your idea of training and equipping new players does nothing to help them survive and find their place in the game.

What new players in EVE first and foremost must learn is that ISK and material/toys do not grow on trees like in a land of cockaigne; they need to be earned.
If a system was implemented that makes new players come to the conclusion that they can just do anything and the game takes care of their fallout without them suffering from any repercussions or consequences, the principles of the game itself are in danger. Instead of making new players come to this conclusion with systems like your suggestion, new players instead ought to be trained and taught to value what is given to them and to see what kind of effort is put into providing them with "free" toys. This way, they will later actually be able to contribute to the game and not just turn into another whiny moron demanding arenas or other garbage because the game is too hard for them or because they cannot find insta action in their backwater high sec system where they are the only resident.

I read this and see the future demise of the human race. The end is approaching.



If you want to help new players AND get paid by CCP - fill out an employment application.

We have enough corps exploiting noobs for isk or inviting noobs into their corp whilst having no clue about the game themselves. We should be trying to get noobs into corps that give a crap and know what they are doing rather than any crap corp and especially not ones who do it for rewards or to skim corp tax from them whilst teaching them nothing.

Why propose a system that gives rewards to the corp rather than the noob themselves? Is this even necessary? Tutorials give quite good hand outs and a decent amount of isk. What more rewards were you thinking of?