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Thank you for the admission that this feature was explicitly introduced as a method of artificially inflating the PCU.

this is wrong in a lot of ways

Well was good while it lasted. 3 new research alts trained up for free.
Absolutely no ship skills on any of them.
Get your noob ship, remove the civilian gun, trash the ship. Undock, dock, get new noob ship, remove mining laser, fit 2nd civilian gun.
Undock, fly to a belt in 0.8 system, target and kill 1 rat.
Rinse & repeat final step each day and it's a nice thank you CCP.

For those saying that they'd never undock to kill a rat in a station based character due to a lack of combat skills?? HTFU.

I'm glad it's going away.

It wasn't implemented as a full feature, so claiming you would iterate based on the results of a half-implemented feature is kind of laughable. To all of the issues we pointed out, such as how narrow the Skinner Box lever was in terms of gameplay in a sandbox full of choices, excluding industrial, exploration, PI, mining, etc from participating; I'm not surprised there wasn't a significant change in player login behavior.

Looking forward to more fully developed events. Hoping the Shadow of the Serpent event is more successful.

I guess I'm the exception then. This got me logging in every day. Days I normally wouldn't have logged in at all, just to get the SP bonus. I was going to start logging in my other characters on my account to benefit from the free SP as I hate how I can only train one character at a time and I refuse to plex for it.

I'm going to echo the benefit to newbros as well, a friend of mine has been wanting to play EvE and he did sub for a bit but quickly gave up once he saw the daunting amount of time to be able to learn skills and do anything. I mentioned this new incentive to him and he was considering coming back, but that won't be happening now.

I feel this "test" was too short to garner true results. The timing was terrible, it's summer, people are setting up to go on or already are on vacation. As someone who is cooped up during the winter, we like getting outside while we can as well. Students had finals and were likely studying over playing a game. Then there's the release of other games, from big successful developers with large followings, such as Overwatch. Add to that WWB is winding down, people who sub just to get in on the big fights then un-sub when they're over shouldn't be counted. No amount of incentive will keep those accounts going. If you were expecting to re-sub just for this, then you need to give it even more time. They're un-subbed and not actively following everything. People will find out about this 6 months from now and say "oh ****, had I known..." Again, too short a time for a test.

You even state that you're still gathering and analyzing the data.... how can you come to a decision when you haven't even finished looking at everything yet.

The fact is, going off of some responses and my own experience, plus your admittance that activity was up, it was working. Maybe not in as high a volume as you'd have hoped or exactly as you had hoped, but it was working. I don't see why you'd stop it then. Partially working or working in a different way is better than not working at all.

did u get tackled in belt?

Please do not remove this feature, this is excellent for newer players to get a little jump in skills, which can mean a lot to newer players. The "instant" reward is a nice draw, should honestly be more of this to encourage activity, you should expand this with some events for newer players to be active and get rewards for being active, skill training is the biggest barrier for newer players and this does really help with that.

This is really cool CCP, thanks for running the skillpoint boost taskforce. I hope that more ppl join the game via similar features. One possible option that we've seen bounced around on the forums is for multiple PLEX or paid month accounts to receive a BOGO on skill point equivalents for the time investment implied.

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Interesting analysis on your project, We put it in to see if it got players to log in again in significant numbers, obviously everything that has been sent your way over the past few years on the subject of falling game numbers has either been utterly ignored or skilfully intercepted before it could be absorbed but here is one take on the situation, Bribery will not cut it guys.

It has been mentioned here that Phobe was the tipping point for turning the slowly falling numbers into a torrent but I suggest you look a little further back to the inception of a train of changes to the game each of which while on the face of it appeared to be the 'Next Best Thing', in actual fact only ramped up the pressure on players to look harder at the game they spent there hard earned dollars on, Was it in fact providing the content they thought they had paid for, the numbers speak for themselves and need no further polish or spin, obviously it does not for many so they simply drift away, stop logging in and eventually unsub there accounts.

It is the content that is the problem here guys, the lack of provision for an individuals self generated content has been lost in favour of the current thread of thought that everyone that plays Eve simply wants to destroy everything they meet, in short you homogenised the playing field, turning it into one gigantic Jita 4-4 undock scenario leaving players little option but to engage in that activity or leave, and who really wants to log into a game were the only style of play is to undock, blow stuff up, get blown up and then log off again.

Those of us that have a vested interest in numbers, those being actual bums on seats, have watched this trend with ever increasing unease as Corporation active numbers have dwindled with each update, Yes fatigue was a major issue, but not on the face of it, there it looked like the perfect answer to force projection but beneath that there were other issues players had to contend with as a consequence of it's introduction, those issues far outweighed the surface penalties and for a lot it was a step to far, especially for those owning capital ships or Jump Freighters.

Mining nerfs spun off as ELUA infractions or attempts to oblige players to interact more met with similar resistance as the players natural risk aversion cut in and the Ice thing, well that was so poorly thought through it was laughable, but in the end it too had only a net negative effect, Not going to touch on ISBOXER as it simply seems to draw out the trolls in larger numbers but that too had a major effect on player numbers for many Corps as yet again they saw players self generated content evaporate followed by the involved Alts and more than some might admit the mains also leaving the game.

Recent changes to Sov mechanics again on the surface appeared to some to be a really good idea but beneath that the real effect to player content was never addressed by CCP, it was just expected that everyone would engage with this new style of play, One were there was little balance in the mechanics and even less content for the players involved having to grind indexes daily simply to maintain the situation before they could even consider doing anything for themselves in the game, like that was going to fly for very long.

Some may disagree but in the opinion of many and an even larger number no longer playing Eve, CCP lost it's way with the game, it forgot that balance extends across all aspects of the game, it forgot that players play the game for the content and that includes not just that served up by CCP, far more important is that which they can generate for themselves, remove that as it has been for many and there is little reason to play Eve at all.

Great to hear that this feature is being removed. Faith has been restored slightly in CCP.

This was a bad feature for the game and hopefully CCP will now concentrate on better ways of increasing player activity.

I was possibly not representative of the general playerbase myself, although I completed one daily quest the whole time the feature had been released (and I logged in most days just to check the markets and chat to friends).

I have to say it though; "I told you so"!