Out of Pod Experience

I get a little giggle for people saying there is more pvp than ever. First off more pvp in lo-sec? Are you serious?
More from when? If there is so much, why is there so few ships destroyed with comparison of just a year ago and even HUGER difference from 2 years ago? You can say wormhole space has more activity all day long but this fact can't be proven so its just too easy to say.

The reality is in EvE, the older players get, the less likely they are to seek out other older players. In reality what is in essence going on is the Developers have created this world where they have all the very old accounts just actively seeking out the very young accounts.

Now who in their right mind would actually want to start a game where they will be picked on constantly unless they are forced into a group of people they may not like (a corporation) so they can achieve safety so they can sit around hoping to pick on new people one day? Is it really so unimaginable that people are not standing in line for this?
Is it really so hard to understand that of the average MMO gamers EvE is most likely to appeal to maybe 1 in 10?
Is it further hard to understand that every MMO gamer knows at least 1 other MMO gamer?
Do you really believe EvE is getting loads of positive responses from others experiences?

Eve had many things going for it while the other MMO's were behind but that's all changing. From theft of good content to just horrible PR from old players this games life is heading down a negative path. Other games are catching up now, with their "player controlled markets" to "players make all the real changes in the world". These are not new concepts, but they sure were while EvE was succeeding. I can directly point to Archeage, which is ripe full of EvE concepts and although it is in Alpha has at least 3 former EvE players I know myself.

The real problem seems CCP's lack of a ideas, or fear of implementing ideas that will scare off the top tier. That is the amusing part, as the top tier are whats scaring off the new players. But apparently they believe now new players are not as important as the old, and are willing to risk them. Let me remind you Ultima Online tried this very idea, which has now been sold for the 4th time, it didn't work and it wont work for you.

you can't ever leave, trust me... :(

I posted earlier about retaining newbies with new tutorial tricks. Now an idea to keep vets and maybe even newbs.

CONCORD run capsuleer tournaments.

I pay an entry fee through an interface to concord based on the class of ship I wish to participate in. Say it costs me 50 mil to get in with an assault frigate and 150 mil to get in with a battleship.

Tournaments are only run in systems with a tournament office in a station. Once entered I get a bookmark to deadspace as does my opponent. Concord insures the match is kept fair with no outside participants. If I win, I continue facing opponents. Winner takes the others entrance fees minus concord's cut for the service. (Money sink)

The entry fees should line up with what it costs to field a tech 2 variant of the class which means you could bring a shiny ship but the payout will not be several times the shiny, just several times the tech 2 cost.

Auar

The tutorial missions could use a bit more polish, but trying to engage players into pvp using pve elements is tough.

Further missions which dig deep into what makes eve so tough with perhaps multiple ways of completing an objective, for instance there is a plex that the new player warps into. Then they can either begin attacking a structure which spawns npcs, do some hacking or salvagin of some object. Begin teaching the player from when they start there is always more than one path to take and it should be encouraged.

Keep talking about how you as a player must take fate into your own hands and do whatever you want.

Hmmm... I consider you one of the better good-trolls, compared to the flood of bad-trolls in forums. More thought less strong arming. Ah well o7

Remove highsec. Lowsec too..
Expand newbie areas a little, the only protected areas, but impose diminishing returns so that they don't continue to inhabit that area for extended periods of time.
Remove most of the NPC corps that players can join, just one common per race, and one per FW militia npc corp. Increasing tax over time.
Taxation against any player corps with less than 20 members.
To spam space from an NPC trade hub, well you can't, you need to exit the hub and float in space to spam, making you vulnerable to attack. No NPC station chat at all.
Hmm... short but all related as you can see. And of course no thought or request towards ever working on WiS again, it's EVE heresy.

edit: such as from a cross-post: just remove high/low and don't let players hide in NPC stations any longer, no more hiding behind the system for anyone, no CONCORD nor any such system as such. Let alliances bloody well police their own territory. Let alliances determine auto-penalties for attacking other alliance members. Break a lot of the existing gates, more choke points, more defensible system chains for alliances. Turn the map into basically a lot of islands.

So yeah, this effectively puts more sandbox into the sandbox.

You're new, eh? Newbies have it better than ever before. And now with multi-training, most vets even run low-SP alt characters, have a blast. Newbies at a disadvantage is a misnomer, something you more would experience in a level-progression themepark game.

Ezwal stared in horror at his monitor. What have I done? It was too late to do anything about it now. Even if he did edit his own post with his ISD powers, he knew that the trolls would have already viewed his comment, many of them vowing to make him regret those fateful words.

Ezwal pushed his keyboard forward and slowly stood up. He walked slowly to the window, placed his palms on the cool glass and stared out at the sprawling city beyond. I cant believe I said that. What have I done?

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a crumpled cigarette. He did his best to straighten it before placing it in his mouth and fumbling around in his pocket for the lighter he knew was there. After a brief search he found his prize and used it. Ezwal slowly inhaled the smoke and savored it for as long as he could before slowly exhaling. I better get back in there.. he said in his head before turning back to the computer.

Trolls were coming, at least he was able to get a smoke before the onslaught...

Remove local chat as an intel source.

One of the biggest issues is its hard for new players to understand or get into the meta game. (which imo is where the fun is)

I propose -->

Use captains quarters tv screens to have a in character news show of what is happening in eve.

- null sec battles / poltics
- high sec ganking / miner bumping etc etc
- eve tornament coverage
- WH space ganks / pvp battles
- Profiles on player corporations and how to join/find.
- industry stats show etc, how much produced etc biggest trade hubs etc


Eg - have a immersive ingame way of showing all the player vs player content. Currently the only way to tell what is happening player vs player is via the forums or 3rd party sites. New players arnt likely to see these. (they might see the forums but once they read GD they gunna back away fast lol.)

Add a casino service to stations.

A lot of us have way to much money and not enough time to blow it. A lot of us also like poker. And slots. And drinks with umbrellas in them.

Make it an optional part of walk-in-stations and you may just see people use that feature... EVE is about being in a cold, heartless universe - what is more heartless than a casino?

Seriously, when I ~first~ heard about walk-in-stations I was sure casino bars where a shoe-in, years later: just that damned door...

EVE Poker and BLINK is fun, but an in-game service is far more accessible.



PS - it also tackles ISK inflation.