In-Game Events and Gatherings

I had almost the exact same idea when I was thinking about this earlier. My version was to reimburse all new players in all space who lost their ship against another player or CONCORD. Anything to encourage new players to shoot things that the risk averse would say they shouldn't.

I don't think you did anything wrong. Quite the opposite, you took the first step in the right direction. Yes, you probably didn't execute the details properly. Nobody does, not after years. If I were to randomly jump to nullsec somewhere solo, the results would be much the same.



To each their own, wikis and vids are nice and all, but I'd advise to talk to real people. There's several public fleets every week, where everybody can join, and they are going to roam around null, often getting hilarious results. And die in the end.



Okay, here's a tip. If that happens to you, check your loss mail. There'll be a number of players on it in different ships and doing different ammounts of damage. Check their characters. Was everyone of them really that much older than your char? Did everyone of them really do much more damage than you could ever had done? Probably not. They probably had newbros with them, and some of them weren't elite pvpers either. What I am saying is, you could probably have been one of them. You could have done better than the worst of them. And this means you could be a valuable addition to their ranks. Their shiny ships? Most probably given to them for free or easily earned. So their ships, too, are within of your reach.

So turn your experience around: you just met a great bunch of people who obviously know more about that area of space than you and who are better organized. Talk to them. Yes, they will smack talk you at first. It's like a girl in a bar, they all do at first. But you might be pleasantly surprised. And btw, not a single 'elite pvper' or solo youtuber in this game will win or even live against 12 combat ships working as a team, no matter what.



It absolutely has a barrier to entry. Still, I believe you are in a minority as you at least tried. And the idea sketched above is meant to lower that barrier and entice more people to try (at no risk).



That's only rational to do. However, I would advise thinking about your definition of fun. Maybe you can expand it a little. Maybe 'fun' does not necessarily be 'winning' or gaining stuff? Maybe it's also in the stories and the losses? I see you have a blog. What do you think will make for the stronger story for your readers: your highsec exploits in some measure of isk/hour or your glorious explosion at the stargates of hell?

However, I take away from your comment that there is one major barrier to entry to nullsec: not having a group or community at first to show one the ropes. This has been discussed many times. Unfortunately, it is not something easily remedied with ISK.

Good luck on your endeavours, I seriously hope you give nullsec another shot and tell your readers about it.

Send BIg Country a message. Right now we are aiming to do 5 minutes a person for each presentation on air. Though we can probably work something out so you can fire off all your projects and causes.

Depending on how many people actually stick their neck out for this you may actually have more time. Also if you are the only one that enters and I don't like your idea, BC will send back your entry fee. So if you do end up being the only one make it count.