Assembly Hall

Category: New User Retention

Base Concept: Newbies want to train everything and they like shiny battleships. Newbies wander around in the skills training alittle of this and that and are bad at everything.

Problem: Newbies don't specialize and don't excel at anything and feel hopeless and quit.

Solution: Help new players understand their ships so they don't feel hopeless.

Idea that builds on Solution: A new tab on each ships Show Info with information to show new players a very basic outline of what will help them build up that ship with a generic basic guide.

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Solution Expanded: On the Show Info on a ship there should be a new Tab called "New Users." When a newbie clicks that link it will show a generic role that ship was originally designed to fill along with a very generic T1 fitting for both PvE and PvP. Then below that will be several categories like "For More Efficiency" "For Better Defense" "To Fit better items" and it will list the most basic skills that will let them be competitive.

Also for more elite ships like the Battleships that newbies want to fly have a big disclaimer that says "While flying a battleship is great, it takes a long time to fly one correctly, to be competitive now please look over these ships that will eventually lead to this one. Like Kestrel to Drake to Raven. We highly recommend you be able to fully fit a T2 Kestrel before you advance to Drake and then advance to Battleship. Please note that "MOST" of the skills required will follow you up the chain" (Or something like that)

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Basis for Concept: I have signed up for Eve and then quit and then came back and then quit over and over. Each time its because I want to do so much of everything but suck at everything. With so many shiny starships its hard to really focus on getting all the T2 Fitting and Gear skills you need to be truely effective and enjoy the game now. After having quit so many times I have finally come back and picked 1 ship I wanted to fly and trained up to fully fit and T2 fly the ship. It feels much better now.