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Skill points for First PVP loss.
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BoBoZoBo
MGroup9
#1 - 2014-08-08 18:32:28 UTC  |  Edited by: BoBoZoBo
It is a well established fact, you will die in EVE.
Might as well get over it as soon as you can.

In an effort to help players get over their "first time," indoctrinate new players to the culture of EVE and encourage a bit of PVP from the start, maybe there should be a reward in the vein of extra skill points, to apply as you wish, for loosing your first ship to another player?

Does not have to be huge, just enough to tickle that part of the brain that likes exciting things for a modest reward. Maybe it is restricted to certain skill tress or maybe it is not a skill but the promise of a new, better ship.

Whatever it is, I think it is worth looking into incentives to pop your PVP cherry. For the player and the community.

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Lugh Crow-Slave
#2 - 2014-08-08 18:46:39 UTC
Shaklu
State War Academy
Caldari State
#3 - 2014-08-08 19:12:59 UTC
New players wouldn't know the difference, and wouldn't understand why it stopped - Old players would just blow themselves up to make a cyno alt faster
Daichi Yamato
Jabbersnarks and Wonderglass
#4 - 2014-08-08 19:26:53 UTC
they get an insurance pay out. considering their first bunch of ships are free from the tutorials, that is a reward for their first PvP loss.

EVE FAQ "7.2 CAN I AVOID PVP COMPLETELY? No; there are no systems or locations in New Eden where PvP may be completely avoided"

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Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-08-08 19:28:32 UTC
Needs to be unexploitable. With the current proposal, one can ask someone to blow their ship up to get the SP.

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Mario Putzo
#6 - 2014-08-08 20:58:28 UTC
Hey guys wanna farm my alt so we have another covert cyno?
Samillian
Angry Mustellid
#7 - 2014-08-08 21:32:52 UTC
Not supported.

Apart from this potentiality being the thin edge of the wedge for the "SP for Plex" brigade I doubt its one off nature would encourage anything except perhaps calls for SP for every loss.

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Paranoid Loyd
#8 - 2014-08-08 21:40:25 UTC
BoBoZoBo, thats a NoNoNoNo

"There is only one authority in this game, and that my friend is violence. The supreme authority upon which all other authority is derived." ISD Max Trix

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BoBoZoBo
MGroup9
#9 - 2014-08-09 15:34:35 UTC
Some valid concerns.
Some misread "first" as "every"

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Celthric Kanerian
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2014-08-09 20:18:50 UTC
No, because EVE is a dark, brutal universe where if you're not awake, clever, patience and what not, you are utterly screwed. You die, you learn.

The universe of EVE is a ***** that is constantly kicking you in the nuts, however if you are clever enough you'll wear scrotch protection.

What I'm trying to say is, follow the tips, rules whatever you want to call it.

1. Don't fly what you cannot afford to lose.
2. Update jumpclone
3. Buy insurance.