Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'd suggest putting this proposal into the sticky SP thread above to keep all the ideas and feedback in one place.

Great idea man.

It took me about a year and a half to finally start pvping....which is the best part of the game IMO.

I'd proposed the same idea in the Dev blog thread - https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5694203#post5694203

But it seems people are against even 100k SP extra.

Cute, and I had to train millions SP in Learning Skills in order to have a future in Eve back in the day.

This would be a Qualify of Life improvement for new players, but could also proliferate the use of gank/disposable alts even more.

Oh you have me the wrong way! I totally agree that an SP bonus for new players completing opportunities would both be a good way to introduce them to activities in eve but also get them past the "I can only fly sh*t-fit frigates" phase, or at least help a little.

I was just mimicking some of the replies I can just see incoming..

The problem here is that if you do it for 1 mil SP people will start complaining that it should be 2 mil SP and so on. It teaches the new player nothing about the skill queue and indeed even misleads them as to how it works and must be managed. That's why I would support the accelerator being standard for new players (also teaches them about boosters/implants) but against anything giving free SP. Managing expectations and all that...

They would complain that it's not enough, you know how people are these days!

People will only learn about the parts of eve that interest them and to be honest the minimal SP this would give you in manufacture, PI etc would not be enough to get a real feel for it. Indeed it could be off putting as you would get a false feeling that such activities were pointless as they didn't give a good return. No way would you even get to touch invention etc.

The accelerator was better as I got the million SP in whatever I chose to train rather than being forced to run all careers to get it. This would be much more valuable to a new player focusing on PvP for instance, or in my case mining and PI initially. It also teaches the new player how the skill queue works which is valuable knowledge.

I too want 1 million free SP for each character.

The main principle of this proposition is giving people a clear and concise path to follow when starting in eve, with a small reward for doing so which would help bridge the gap.

At the minute people join the game and the vast majority don't give the game a real chance because you get into the game, have limited skills which limit your content options, to get skills you have to inject and train skills which means that initially eve isn't really that fun.

You could graph the fun had in eve with time(or SP) and it would be a steadily increasing curve (and then slope once you reach the grand stage of bittervet).
The SP system is a great system but a terrible system for recruiting.

CCP should hybridize the early stages of gameplay so people, using the opportunities system, could go out and proactively earn SP, whilst playing the game and having fun.

My point is in any other game you have to actively gain XP to progress, Eve on the face of it, has you waiting a specific amount of time with no effort needed to skill up. this doesn't engage people.