Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Come on CCP make a booster for real money as plex 50% to atributes for 1 week for $20

No.

I'm playing EVE since 2006 i have nothing to trane anymore lol) i'm thinking about newcommers))

Or just stop updating his clone forever, either one works.

Posting in a troll thread.

Try training Basic Spelling :).

And no to your "suggestion".

CCP still give out that 30-day booster to newbies (even if only "special" times)?

If so, this is already in place (well, not the "will fail miserably because of Malcanis' Law" version OP came up with).

If your Eve is not full of waiting U DOIN' EET RONG

i thought there was already a booster for the new guys that stops working after so many days.

I really do not understand what peoples problem is with this and why everyone goes 'SHIELDS UP - PAY TO WIN DO NOT WANT'. Think about what the consequences are for the player base - none of them are really bad.

1 - Want to try a new aspect of the game? Decrease the time it takes to do so and lower the entry barrier, getting players to the content they want faster, increasing retention. (don't try to tell me that making people wait months to do the thing they want to do is better for retention, surely letting them do that thing is vastly more effective.)

2. Lower entry barrier for new players. A lot of players waste skill points early on, but once they have done their research and found out what they want to do, why put an additional barrier in place that prevents them getting to that content? I definitely remember feeling penalized until I had at least 15 million SP. Why damage retention by setting the barrier so high?

3. It really isn't pay to win. Having more skill points isn't going to give you more experience or more isk, both of which are equally, if not more important than skill points when it comes to undertaking a new activity and competing with other players. How many skill points someone else has rarely has any impact on you. Buying ISK with plex is a much bigger advantage, and at this point we have all come to accept that as the norm.

4. More revenue for CCP - In theory results in a more stable company that can produce higher quality content.

At what point does anyone lose? You could possibly add some kind of diminishing return based on the amount of skill points you already have, so that lower sp characters get more of a bonus.

The last thing I think about when playing is 'how many SP the OTHER guy has'. I really don't care. What I care about is how much SP I have, and if I can do that thing I want to do in the game.

The only real counter argument I can think of is for older players (5+ years) who are bitter about people developing faster than they could "back in the day" - My reply would be people are offering the same cash investment by buying plex, and in a 10 year old game, the gap really needs to be closed between old players and new if you want the game to continue growing and survive into the future, as it stands that gap is only going to get bigger.