EVE General Discussion

So I came back into the game after a break of a few years and I noticed some new, good changes to the game. One thing however struck me as not so good - Career Agent rewards.

The problem here is two-fold. Firstly in that a good chunk of the rewards given by Career Agents were skillbooks already possessed by the character from when it was created. These books were low value and useless to the character. Not to sound childish or whatever, but to me it seemed a bit like rewarding a drowning man with a drink of water.

Secondly, that some of the rewards were duplicated by other Career Agents e.g. ships/skillbooks/equipment.

The problem is that there is the risk that the newbie phase of a character's life is seen unrewarding and this could be seriously off-putting.

I suggest that the rewards given by the career agents are changed and soon. E.g. over the course of going through the process of completing all Career Agent pathways, the new player is able to accumulate a full set of +1 implants. Useful I think? Maybe someone else can come up with better ideas, but this is just my two-pence worth.

The main issue is new players are being given skillbooks for skills they have by default, due to the increase in starter SP.

tell us which other MMO gives/rewards a newbro "purple/gold/blue" stuff at level 1 or even 20?

implants, afaik, just makes you risk averse so i wouldn't encourage it early on. they need to learn how to play the game and yes that includes dying, a lot, before plugging in implants.

I don't see any reason to resist a change so that skill book awards are not for automatically learned skills. That is reasonable. Also, clearing out duplicate awards for skillbooks is also good.

Duplicate equipment or ships is fine. Having spares as a newbie, when one is more likely to accidentally get blown up in pve is a good thing.