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New Bro's and Free Skill Points

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Freelancer117
So you want to be a Hero
#1 - 2015-07-24 11:01:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Freelancer117
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Gorski Car wrote:

My suggestions this week have been pretty focused on the NPE. I posted something small about increasing the starting skill points for new characters to around one million. Ideally, I would want new players to start with these skills already trained.

I know some people are going to complain that giving new characters a skill at V is unnecessary and that it would be better to just remove the skill, but I am pretty sure that it is easier coding-wise to do it this way. I have also started a second account with a new alt and am running through the tutorial/opportunities stuff, seeing how it is to start the game today compared to when I began.


source: http://crossingzebras.com/the-gorski-csm-report-2/

I agree that new players should get these skills, even the 2 at level 5, blame CCP for the skill requirements imho not the new player for having to wait for such basic amount of SP to play the game. And for bitter vets, in the past you had free sp from the start to when you show your bloodlines and occupation etc.

couple of caveats:

- to encourage players to keep training and give them a positive reinforcement you have to keep it under the 1 million sp mark.
- only new accounts can have only one character with this update to ~ 1m sp.
If a new player wants more alts on the same account, he has to level them up from the ground up and pay for it, like the rest of us did.
- When a player creates multiple accounts for him/herself, then he/she gets the one update sp amount per account. It would be to difficult to distinguish otherwise.

Fight the Good fight, precious !

Regards, a Freelancer

PS: CCP Rise responding to the NPE feedback from this week (self.Eve)
submitted 21 days ago * by CCP_RiseCCP Games

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/3bv30w/ccp_rise_responding_to_the_npe_feedback_from_this/

Q: 'Starting skills are a huge barrier, can we give a lot more to new players'.

A: Yes. But this is not a simple change. You guys seem fairly agreed that the small amount of starting skills, combined with a high amount of 'must have' support and requirement skills, leads to some really icky barriers to participation for new players. We are inclined to agree and we are in the process of laying out a plan to address the problem. Nothing is set in stone yet but it seems likely that we will try and move new players towards starting with significantly more SP. Maybe between 1 and 2 million. It also seems likely that we will probably avoid any major skill reworks or skill removals. As this plan solidifies you will hear more from us.

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D) CCP Games Pay to Win at skill leveling, with instant gratification

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Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#2 - 2015-07-24 11:39:02 UTC
It's being thought about seriously. Not necessarily the suggestion given, but with a holistic approach.

Woo! CSM XI!

Fuzzwork Enterprises

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Freelancer117
So you want to be a Hero
#3 - 2015-07-24 11:44:30 UTC
Holistic approach okay, may I ask you will CCP improve the NPE in one push then ?

This is a serious question, since we really need new bro's to come and stick if we want another 10 years.

Eve online is :

A) mining simulator B) glorified chatroom C) spreadsheets online

D) CCP Games Pay to Win at skill leveling, with instant gratification

http://eve-radio.com//images/photos/3419/223/34afa0d7998f0a9a86f737d6.jpg

http://bit.ly/1egr4mF
Baaldor
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#4 - 2015-07-29 16:46:07 UTC
Freelancer117 wrote:
Holistic approach okay, may I ask you will CCP improve the NPE in one push then ?

This is a serious question, since we really need new bro's to come and stick if we want another 10 years.


So how did we have the New Bro's stick for the past 10 years?
Pah Cova
Made in Portugal S.A.
#5 - 2015-08-12 22:36:35 UTC
New bro´s for what?
Hotdrop them until they bleed?
Gank them until they leave?

Thats what can expect from the old bro´s...