EVE General Discussion

Eve dont want those bears anyways.

Remember that dev post? There are some players that it is 9kay or good to lose or whatever he said. Sometimes it is good when certain players leave.
Something like that.

EVE most certainly does, otherwise it wouldn't exist.

Nowadays it's basically a requirement to have TS3 to be in a player corp and I prefer silence and privacy when playing eve, so NO!

I pay CCP good mullah little youngster from my numerous accounts. If they ever develop your miniscule-like thinking, eve PO will shrink down to like 5k. How long do you think your precious PVP centralize Eve will survive in that state?

I think OP has a point - if there were less NPC corps they would be more likely to become active in the way that CAS is active. If each race had only one newbie corp then it would be more viable for people who like helping newbies to roll a character and start giving a newbie corp some structure, fleets, channels etc. I also think that this would have the effect of giving the races a greater cultural identity of their own - every new character would pass through one of these corps and get some level of exposure to their way of doing things.

Another good feature could be if the newbie corps had an optional PvP flag which would allow them to shoot at flagged members of the opposing factions' newbie corps in highsec - there could be an almost RvBesque situation between them, but optional and without the added complication of faction police that FW corps experience. The flag should be turned off by default to give newbros a chance to get their bearings. Maybe they shouldn't even be able to turn it on until they have finished the career agent missions and tutorial.

I've always been an advocate of older players who drop corp being put in faction militias - non-newbie NPC corps as they currently exist are not healthy for the game. Older players should still be able to drop to an NPC corp to opt out of wardecs but it should be one which exposes them to greater risks/restrictions and which has an identity and PvP culture of its own. This would encourage more players to stay in player corps and enrich the NPC corp experience at the same time.

Problem is, we don't exactly know how the starter school and default NPC corp are really linked to our character so it might be a PITA to unscrew that system and rebuild it so we all get the same corps. Is there really much to gain from herding all those NPC corp player into larger less numerous corps?

Hmm, interesting. Something like this?

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Not like putting all NPC Corp players into CAS will necessarily increase player retention, particularly new players, but we can certainly offer the opportunity for some group activities they might not otherwise know of. I, having started may EVE trial not knowing anybody else in the game, certainly lucked out by starting in a Corp with like minded people I've enjoyed hanging out with ever since.