EVE General Discussion

It has nothing to do with veterans wanting to maintain some illusory advantage. EVE isn't like other MMOs where "level" matters. Character skills don't make you 'better' for the most part , they mostly give you access to new equipment and ways of doing things.

I sold the 1st character I ever made and i still have the 2nd one. That 2nd character can fly more ships and use more guns than any of my other characters. But the 3 focused characters I made (for various PVE related things, like incursions and Faction warfare missions) are much younger and much much better at what I use them for than that character that is years older.

Bottom line, a 'clean slate' won't cure a bad player's inadequacies (no matter how many skill points they have, they will still suck) and a good player isn't concerned about this kind of thing in the 1st place because he is more concerned about creating a good character that can do what needs to be done.

Not taking Jenn's side here - but what you want to achieve can be done without creating a new server.

Just declare independence from all existing markets besides blueprints and start off making due for yourself/corporation. Thats how my corporation worked originally and that's why we still call it a sandbox.

Yes.

I would play a restarted EVE. It would be fun to see everyone start from zero again.

The two things that would ruin the fun, however, would be PLEX and ISboxing. I would say that a new instance of the game should be PLEX and ISBox free for the first year, at least as much as possible.

Interestingly, the game that EVE was primarily based off of, Tradewars2002, would reset at a specific time and whoever owned the most space, credits and just plain "stuff" combined was the winner of that round.

Let me put this in another similar context. "Hello Mr. x, this is your bank. We know you have worked hard and diligently kept up your mortgage payment up for the last 8 years, BUT we really want you to start over from the beginning."

NO

I've always thought that a brand new server instance where everyone starts over fresh would be really great for this game and for attracting new players who have hesitated to previously join due to thinking they would be too far behind. Any thoughts?

Edit: I've been playing for four years on my main account, and opened two alt accounts this past year. Would definitely be interested in a new server instance.

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