Skill Discussions

Hi all

I don't know if this is the right place to put up something like this but i need to somehow express my opinion about the new players needs when they decide to join and start playing EvE.

I have seen lots of new players struggling to play and cope up with the increasing demand of the game in skills and the "need to learn skills" for being able to start enjoying this game, that most of us older players do.
I have seen many following the steep learning curve some with success and enthusiasm others with not so much, and finally i ve seen lots of new players either quit out of disappointment or start decreasing their game time until they finally get bored because of their lack of skills.
I believe we all agree that having new players is important for all of us and of course CCP.
So here is my proposal:
Create a new SUPER implant. One that ADDS a huge learning potential (something like a +6 attribute modifier) with a limited operating time (say 4-6 months) and make it BOUND to the character so it can not be sold or otherwise transferred and give it as a bonus to the new account for his 1st subscription.
I don't know if it will help in increasing the new players enthusiasm for the game but it will certainly increase their morale and will provide them with something that can actually help them rapidly increase much needed skills in shorter time thus allowing them to enjoy EvE more.

Thank you

Buy some PLEX, sell on Market, buy character on Bazaar. Done.

I believe they can make this implant like the Genolution pod implant for the said period but in any case my point is not to exactly implement this idea but for CCP to provide the necessary motivation and of course the means for new players to stay in the game rather than get disappointed by the amount of skills they need to slowly train keeping in mind that new skills are added all the time

The initial rise to 10mil SP should fast imo, faster than normal, for all players.

It is no need to change the start training speed or the number of SP you have at character creation.

Remember whatever is done to help new players will help the existing players even more at which stage the 10M SP newbies still get stomped by the 10M SP alts played by the older players.

CCP has already tried to give new starters 800k SP day one, they have tried giving double speed for the first 30 days and so on. The best approach is what we have now with high base attributes and a few free remaps.

You will never have enough SP and you will never catch up with those who started in 2003. No amount of help from CCP will change that. In the end you should be happy with the amount of SP you have, it's still a year's worth more then the guy who will start a year from now. Everyone, even the 2003 guy, had to start at one point and they gained SP a lot slower and harder.

Live with it or quit, same choice for everyone.

Keep in mind that a month old player training the right skills can fly a frigate as well (SP-wise) as someone with 100m SP.

I'd change some of the prerequisites. AWU should be behind WU4 not 5 for example.

I would have no issue with new chars (yes, Alts included) getting a multiplier applied to their training speed for N days.

Not sure if everyone gets this or if it was a steam acount deal but when i started 5 months ago I got a "prototype cerebral accelerator". +9 to all stats for 2 weeks. Which should help the initial skill training.
Now a bigger help to me would be telling me about this great item straight away rather than me seeing it a month late and not being able to use it. I did sell it for a nice amount though.

i still remember the times when u got double the training speed for the first 1m sp + learning skills. Happy the latter got lost as its rly annoying especially for newer player. But the former would have been neet to stay