EVE General Discussion

One of the biggest things EVE has going for it is its massive playerbase, filled with tons of new-player friendly corps that love giving new players a place to find their footing.

One of the biggest things EVE has going against it is the perception that it is a dumb stupid boring game that's really hard to learn and once you do, it's a second job. Spreadsheets in space, etc.

Corporations are a major catch-22 because they work towards both of these points.

There is no doubt that, in EVE online, your average corp deals with far more logistics and management issues - both in game and out - than your average clan or guild from most other games. However, there is this massive perception, this negative stigma, that surrounds it. (The fact that our guilds are called "corporations" does not help this.) The NPE needs to do a better job of de-mystifying this. Stating somewhere that the word "corporation" need not be feared, that it is more or less analogous to "guild" would be a good idea. A new, friendlier, easier to find Corporation Classifieds of sort would be great, both for new players and existing corps alike.

Interaction with corporations, perhaps even joining one, should be part of the NPE. In a game fueled by player created content, this is how many new players will decide to stay or leave.

Me personally? I was having a pretty good time, but getting bored and about to finish my two-week trial. Would have signed off for good if I hadn't been recruited by a corp in my last few days. They introduced me to PvP; I joined a gatecamp that weekend and it was the most fun I'd ever had in the game. That was three years ago now, and I'm still with em.

I'm not saying we need to change the name of our space-guilds. But the stigma around "corporations" is not at all what they really are, and I think it would do wonders for the NPE to include proper understanding of the interaction with them.

This is true, though. Carm told me once, "EVE isn't a game, it's a hobby".

Think about that for a second.

Don't we have a "corp things" thread recently started by a dev?


Pretty sure I saw something like that....


Yeah..

Uh... who cares what people perceive it to be?

Surely we only want those who are brave enough to give it a try and smart enough to learn how to survive?

Less of the gimme-gimmes and more Alan Quartermaines, please.

That's cute, but what relevance does it have to the rest of my point?

"Are you really that naive to think that public perception of EVE Online is totally and completely irrelevant?"

as hip and cool as it may sound to be like "YEAH **** THOSE GUYS WE DIDNT WANT EM ANYWAY WE EAT WHAT WE LIKE APPLE JACKS *****" ...

Like, I get it. There's a certain high you get from being superior to others. But when introducing new potential players to a game, the attitude should be "hopefully they'll get into this too and then we'll have even MORE people to play with and against," not "psh if they're not patient enough to navigate through ****** UIs and poorly explained concepts, they're not good enough to play with me anyway!"

Most new player friendly corps I found weren't worth the creation fee.

Next you want these corporations to be immune to wardecs .....

Invi has a point. There's too much 'deal with it' and black and white view points versus actually trying to find a way and help people get into Eve and stick with it.

Ok well when you are mentally old enough to reply in a civil and adult manner, Ill still be here.

Man you are just all about the blatant and completely un-subtle insults, aren't you? Civil indeed.

I am addressing your concerns while responding to you in exactly the way you are responding to me.