EVE New Citizens Q&A

On my "main", I do lvl 4 missions all day long. I don't actually use all the isk I make on anything more useful than bumping my DPS by just 10 more points, or my tank to last just 5 seconds longer. You know what I mean? I waste billions of isk on deadspace and officer mods just get 1-3% more stats to... to do what? To do more level 4 missions.
Honestly, I don't know why I keep doing this, because I am extremely bored.

So last year around Christmas and New Year's I decided to have a rookie give-away and I went to the 1.0 starter systems to hold a small event where I'd wait at a random planet or asteroid belt, and the first person to reach me and fly to under 5km to me would get free isk.
I tried doing this for about half a day in three different systems. I increased the isk I was offering, I started doing planets only, I even tried to offer advice while in system, but I was so shocked that there was no response. Nothing. Nobody ever came looking for me, nobody even replied in chat even once. And I think each system had around 50 players in them.
I quit a few days later.

Well I'm playing again now, I still don't know why I endlessly mindlessly grind lvl4's, and I keep thinking back to last New Year.

So, the TL;DR version -
Where are you rookie? Are you even interested in these simple games to win free isk? What would make you more interested if you are not?

edit: changed to say rookie instead of noob :)

Took me a good while to notice I had a chat, also that this chat contained different channels.
For the first few days, I only read a little in corp chat. And I am only now just starting to use local chat!
Also I was warned to beware of scammers, and if something sounded to good to be true, it was.
(So I would probably have ignored you had I read it.)

0.5 is still hisec yes...

edit -- yes, normally we say 'rookie' or 'newbie' (or newb ... not to be confused with noob)

lvl 4 missions is a great way to attract noobs, or rookies. You form a fleet, warp in for the aggro, have the other rookies fly in, and they help you kill the rats, share lp, ISK, and standings. Gives you a reason, or a purpose for telling them how to fit their ships better, than say mixing weapons, or shield tank AND armor tank, etc.

Hm. I did choose to go into the rookie 1.0 systems specifically because all kinds of griefing rookie pilots is forbidden in just those systems, so I didn't think rookies would be cautious of me, but I guess good for them to try and be safe from the very start.

Now that I think of it to a rookie this probably looks like such an obvious trap. Fly to some planet and approach an unknown vessel and get blown up for the effort, right?

How do you guys suggest I can approach this from another angle? Maybe some kind of other game to play? Trivia or something?
I'm thinking, maybe I should make an alt so I can get access to the rookie channel? Is it allowed to have these kind of games in it?

I have also tried this several times to varying degrees of success. I think a large part of it has to do with the rookie pilots either being too busy to notice or thinking it's a scam. I'll give it another go tomorrow with a bunch of different prizes n see how expensive i have to go before someone has to pay attention

If any new pilots even see me tomorrow, tell me u read this and i'll give you a prize.

Surprising it took you that long to get bored of missions, perhaps you'll have more fun finding a good corp and blowing other people up in cheap destroyers or frigs, EVE is much more fun once you start playing with other people and the price of a couple of those officer mods (can I haz?) can fund quite a few fights in T1 fitted boats.

Anyway, the rookie systems, where CCP enforces a somewhat strict "don't f*ck with newbs", aren't just the 1.0 systems where they initially wake up, the new players hardly spend more than an hour there, it also includes the 0.9 dead-end systems (they're specifically chosen because they only have 1 gate so no one gets lost I believe) where they do the career agents missions.

A lot of them are warned quite early about scams, so suspicion is understandable but I assure you there are people in rookie systems, alas, how many of them are newbs and not new alts? hard to tell. But if I wanted to dedicate some of my ressources towards new players, I'd look more into sharing knowledge and experience, than giving away assets or ISKs, the former allows them to acquire the later more easily in my opinion.

Anchor a Secure Container and put a riddle or trivia question as the name of it so it can be read when you mouse over it. The answer to the riddle or question is the password that will let the rookie access it and get the prize inside.

Actually rather like that idea. You could add a bookmark to a new location and the riddle could be the password for the next container. Which could contain another location etc. Obviously add candy.

They are right to be suspicious. Eve is a lot of fun, but extremely harsh...as I'm sure you know...