EVE General Discussion

The NPE drives away WoW carebear types, and has worked just fine in steadily increasing subs for CCP as long as nullsec had variety and action. Now that subs are dropping like crazy from nullsec stagnation, lets ask the Blue Donut Master himself how to fix the game.

Very well put.

It is crap. Does CCP want to or see the need to fix it?

One thing the CURRENT NPE could do better at, is understanding ship loss.

At random, with no warning, one of the career agent missions should result in a massive gatecamp gank. 100% you failed the mission standings ding and all. An actual honest to goodness failure, not the silly "OK you go out there this mission is your ship automatically blowing up".

After it happens, send the newbie an EVEmail (or tutorial window whatevs), detailing what just happened, and how in the future, it won't be NPCs doing that, it'll be other players. The evemail should also state, in no uncertain way, that it's allowed, permitted behaviour, you consent to PVP when you log in, etc etc etc.



And as a random idea, there's no need to totally do away with AWOXing. It's actually a useful tool for content generation, done right. My idea there is, tie "shoot corpmates without Concord response" to a high level corp status, like CEO/Director. Leave the chance for AWOXing in place, just make it something the infiltrator either has to work for, or take advantage of re:lax security.

Now, I know the glaring hole in that is "reverse awoxing", and the only fix I can think of is something like a weeks worth of immunity from all corpmates, for new entrants. That's kludgy though, I'm sure the EVE community has a better idea.

Someone should stop those evil Greifers.

Too bad this new coalition is driving new players away.. Maybe Mittani's griefers could take care of this problem?

Most of his post has absolutely nothing to do with "greifers", unlike the OP's thread title.

And, besides that, I 100% disagree with him. "helping new players" will never really be a thing if you take away the best real method to destroy bad corporations. Because awoxing is pretty much one of the last ways that you can actually get at people in highsec thanks to so many safety buffs.

His idea would need to coincide with an enormous nerf to both highsec safety and highsec income. (of course, both of those things need to happen anyway, so people have an incentive for lateral movement in the game's security areas)

Very few people's is relevant. Most of us can only offer what we ourselves would have enjoyed more of in the NPE when we first started.

Myself? I would have liked to skip it.

Like when you had to create a SS 15k past a gate so you could warp to zero?

It's not, CCP gets ample feedback from real new players to work with.

It's worth poinintg out that, if the Goon-Lord and his merry band of Yes-Men really cared about new players and their experience, they could use their trillions in ISK assests to improve the new player experience themselves ... you know, like the real Goons of old used too, not work on Titan #300 and fine tune their content crushing BOTLORD agreements.

Just make the new player experience more interactive and with more audio.

Reading Aura's 82 thousand little informational boxes in the bottom right corner is boring as hell.

The game is interesting and the tutorial isn't off track. It teaches the necessities. The only problem is that it is based off of reading. And all "hur dur" jokes aside, not a lot of people playing a game want to read. You open up the game to people who learn better visually and by lecture.

So now that the game has pretty much run out of actual noobs, they're considering to improve the NPE?

What will be next? They will improve PvE once the average mission runner would rather tear off his eyes than rescue the damsel for the thousandth time?