Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Most get a feel for if they will play the game within a week or 2. I do not think an unlimited trial (or even a longer trial) would eb good for the game. at 20 days you can have an incredibly proficient suicide alt. at 20 days you can have an incredibly proficient scout. New players often decide to sub to get rid of the restrictions of the trial account long before the 20 day limit because they wanna try something that they can't. I don't see your idea making many new subs but I do see it's potential for serious abuse (and that's just what I would do with them)

Any of the first 3 mentioned things pretty much kill eve outright.
4 is you being smartass and 5 is not true.

Hello there,

Here is my humble opnion:
EVE is a special kind of MMO, it is not for everyone but we should still try to make every new player feel like they have a chance to settle in and find a place or activity within EVE that they enjoy.

It should be about giving people a chance to try out as much as possible.

My suggestions are not about monetization or restricting the gameplay of veteran player but about making the game more fun and exciting for new and old players.

1. Remove / hide attributes, remove learning implants and attributes from other implants and introduce more skill hardwirings to slot 1-5.

Why?
Attributes prevent both old and new player from trying out skills that are outside their current attribute configuration (learning missiles as int/mem and so on).
Learning Implants or attributes on other implants make people more afraid to undock because they fear to lose out on precious skillpoints either by undocking with +5 implants and losing them or by using only a +3 clone.
Replacing these learning implants with skill hardwirings (that actually improve the performance of the clone) will keep all the people happy who like big numbers from pod kills.


2.Let new characters learn skills at a faster pace.
Example (with only 30 days per month):
1. Month 5000 SP/H (3.600.000 SP at the end of the month)
2-6. Month 4000 SP/H (14.400.000 SP during the 2. to 6. month)
7-12. Month 3000 SP/H (12.960.000 SP for the last 6 month of the first year)
Every character older than one year would learn at the current 2700 SP/H.

Hope these numbers are correct. Numbers can be adjusted but the basic idea is to learn fast at the beginning and slow down to the normal learning rate by the end of the first year.

Why?
One of the most exciting things when you start EVE is this huge amount of skills and possible paths to take. There is so much to try out but it takes so long to learn but this change allows new players to make the most of their first month and at the end of the year you feel like you can stand toe to toe with the veteran players (skillpoint wise) but still have alot to learn.

During the first month a new player could easily learn all necessary skills to IV for several career paths in EVE and try them out or focus on one and come very close to perfecting it.

After the first year a new player (or character) will have aquired 30.960.000 SP. That is around 7-8 million skillpoints more than a character with +5 and perfect remap could achieve and it is enough to try different things out and still be competent at more than one.


3. Introduce missions that ask a player to travel to low, null or w-space.
No special item to aquire or station to land at, only a certain low / null system (random for every player) or a certain number of different w-space systems to be visited. How a player gets their doesn't matter. No time limit, no way to fail it, can only be done once per week. Payout (5-15 milion credits should be enough, alot for new players) should depend on the number of jumps to reach the destination or number of w-systems to visit.

Why?
All the EVE players who want new people to go outside of high-sec are right. The first time it feels dangerous but sooo exciting even if the system was actually empty and there was no threat at all.
So this type of mission gives new players a direction to start with, a reason to leave high-sec, a goal to reach, a destination to travel to.

The reason it should be done only once a week is simple: prevent abuse of more experienced players as much as possible and give new players time to complete them without the new player feeling rushed.


So with these three suggestions we gave (new) players a way to try out different career paths in EVE by letting them learn faster, we took away the fear of losing skillpoints by doing something dangerous and/or new for both new and old players and we gave (new) players a reason to leave high-sec (perhaps they will like what they see out there).


Of course Malcanis' Law still applies. For veteran players it will be easier and faster to train alts for certain purposes and the new mission type will allow players with alot of characters to gain alot of credits but it also means more targets because more people will no longer be afraid to undock because of their expensive learning implants.


Thanks for reading.