In-Game Events and Gatherings

If he is mining, then he already is.

I strongly discourage new players from mining because that is time spent training into skills that do not translate into spaceships exploding, which is far more entertaining and exciting for new (and old) players.



This is a stupid and offensive slur against Olympians and demeans the achievements of people who spend their lives training to compete in sporting endeavours. How many Olympic medals have you won?

yeah because killing a week old venture pilot sounds real exciting and great encouragement for new players to even want to pvp, all i see this doing is killing any new players encouragement to even subscribe to the game, so great work you sound like your a l33t pvper

LMFAO. I think he's got you there, Arkady. It's not like you belong to one of the most newbie-friendly groups in Eve or anything.

goons are experts at spinning posts and diverting. when facts and numbers are shown they will grasp at any post they can to divert attention. that is why it is best to stay away from emotion filled posts and especially not to use metaphors or similes as they are particularly easy to turn negatively (as per the special Olympics topic, rather low even for a goon :/ )

if you want to make a point, post numbers and facts and first hand experiences, not easily corrupted metaphors or opinions.

if thats an accurate number then thats pretty sad

After a year of mining, a newbie would most likely just unsub, or be braindead thanks to mining being hilariously boring. Sure, it can be relaxing in small doses, but the best thing I can recommend to a new player would be taking a frigate or destroyer he/she likes and then go out and kill Ventures. Or do whatever, just don't mine all the time.

Also you seem to not get that this contest is open to everyone, including newbies. And the Venture is not just a rookie mining ship. W-Space corps use Ventures for gas mining in huge numbers, for example.

Or would you dismiss an Atron or a Condor as a "newbie-frigate", just because it is easy to train into one? (Some career-missions even give you combat-frigates, like other missions give you an industrial or a Venture.)

This contest is a neat idea to attract newbies and by the way, since newbies won't be as attached to their ships like a several-year-old mission runner with his blingy autism-chariot, so it will be easier for them to just go "Wait, I can win stuff by shooting at other Ventures? Cool! Where's my Catalyst again?"

Ah, so you're now the sole arbiter of where competitions must be announced in order to qualify as open to the public? I shall make a note of this.

It is an interesting data point, but lacks context such as; how many ventures of players more than a few weeks old were killed in the same period, and how does that compare to previous months.

I really really don't understand the logic of "I lost a space ship in a space ship shooting game, I am not playing anymore". This is not even the level of "go back to WoW". You can die in WoW if memory serve correctly. Its more like go back to farmvile if you don't want anything bad to happen.

What is it that people want when they mine. I can write up a quick web site where they can click a button and a number next to a $ will increase each time. I will even put some pretty NASA images in background if you want.

newb or not. Player Player interaction is the whole point of a MMO. And a game where shooting other internet space pixels is a big part of the game, well yea expect to die every now and then.