Player Features and Ideas Discussion

*** It’s long I know, but worth the Read. I put some comedic dribble to help pass the serious space ship parts. Please like mah post if you agree ***

Alright vets and community, CCPlease has rolled out another desperation tactic to acquire more player basis and to churn out more money. We all have our Pitchforks and I'm standing with you.

But.... I can't help but lend assistance to the Icelandic people in their time of need.

So here goes.

I'm sure you vets have had a friend or two ask you about Eve in conversation, and you bark back with excitement because it is your #1 Hobby. You go on to illustrate about epic fights with thousands of pilots and how you can fly said spaceship all over New Eden, and how your actions influence everyone because of this thing called the butterfly defect. You even mention to your stoner pot friend that they can take in game drugs to enhance their abilities just like they do in RL, and there are even skills to reduce side effects! You even in your hastily excitement share with him the cheesiest Eve trailer ever to exist.

https://youtu.be/OSxSyv4LC1c

To your astonishment, you have not scared them away at this point! But as you go on to explain everything, you drop the bomb; “you have to play the game for six months" to be able to do anything. Even if this is not true, you still feel it in your heart, and another potential subscriber is lost.

Let's face it, and be honest with ourselves. The barrier to entry is very high, but extremely rewarding. In today's Reddit generation, everything is instant gratification, and the hurry up and wait, skill queuing online is not very exciting for new players who are busting out at the seams to get into a Megathron even if they only have light auto-cannons. Over time, they will appreciate not having to grind because CCP was ingenious when crafting the skill-queue, but that time is not now. Now is the time for Pavlov’s Dog to get a treat for accomplishing feats of strength, bravery, and intelligence. We need to keep that player interested because they lack the dedication that you and I had when we were climbing up the hill both ways in our Iteron Mark I, chewing on the same non volumetric round rock for 3 hours to bank 500 k ISK.
So instead of turning our characters into soylent green to get a few thousand SP out of them, and destroying the Plex market for college ramen eating students who will just have to grind harder, I propose the following.
Got your shank ready Vets?
Here goes…

I propose that the opportunities map that CCP put in place to help new players also reward their accomplishments with Skill points. Ideally, I would like to see new players have a decent starting point around 5 Mil SP, but make them work for it at least! With each opportunity that they fully complete (There are multiple objectives in each opportunity), reward them with, brace yourself…. 225,000 K LP. Granted, this is a lot per opportunity, so I would suggest that CCP add to the opportunities to not make the reward so high, but as of right now, there are 20 opportunities. (Math = 5 Mil SP, - 500 K that you start off with = 4.5 Mil. 4.5 Mil / 20 = 225,000).

But WAIT A MINUTE, THAT IS NOT FAIR FOR THE VETS. OUR STRUGGLE WAS REAL, AND YOU ARE DUMBING DOWN THE GAME AND MAKING IT EASY MODE.

Calm your horses guise because we too are eligible to take advantage of the 5 mil SP granted from the opportunities map; thus making everything Fair and Balanced Like FOX NEWS. (I’m pretty sure im not using semicolons correctly even though I used this video to help me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M94ii6MVilw )

But in all seriousness, this would help get new player over the initial hump, get them involved, and let them have some fun; thus increasing membership. I love Eve enough to swallow my pride and give the new guy a break. This proposition rewards both new players with a great experience and the skills for vets to take their hand and make something out of them instead of just getting frustrated at their lack of inabilities.

I want Eve to truly be FOREVER. I don’t want to be a part of the Elite who have 130 mil SP, and no one to shoot because of CCP’s inability to retain players for fear they upset remaining community because we were too stubborn to throw someone a bone. I’m sure the majority of you would trade noobs having 5 mil sp for more content and new blood in the game.

I am running against Kayne West for presidency come 2020. Please vote for me.

You know, thats not a half bad idea.... I thought you were going to be trolling us with something, but that actually makes sense.

+1

good idea man really like it.

I like it.

+1

Bad idea written by a person bad at the game and thinking.

Thread should be deleted because it's redundant.

If you want to argue it's being different than the threadnought in F&I, well then since you're so familiar with that sub and what the threads in there are about, you should have known that sub forum was where suggestions go, not general discussion.

Get good at the game and forums, bad.

#thebest

(does anyone else find it odd that 2 NPC corporation chars both posted their VERY FIRST posts on the forums in THIS thread supporting it within 2 minutes of each other?

It's like the first 4 replies are all OP.

OP is definitely not being a deceptive manipulative curse word)

p.p.s. Jesus how deep does this rabbit hole go? This thread is like 99% OP and his alts.

Hmm player run servers would be disgustingly funny. Supported!

I love this idea. +1 op

Lets get some fresh blood into eve.

I must admit the current decline in numbers is starting to worry me.

out with the old in with the new this sounds good I do think even with the new starting skill points is still not enough at least a few million

I would like to see them bring back learning skills.

support