Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Inspired by another thread, I wonder if some sort of "fittings library" that contains low-skill, functional fits for a range of ships would be useful. These would be easy-to-fit, tailored to the ship's role and aimed at a new player. Accompanying them would be a short description about them and possible changes.

The reason for this is help new players learn how to fit a ship a bit better. I recently returned to EVE and, despite having played extensively beforehand, was initially overwhelmed by everything. I've got a better handle on it now, but I had existing knowledge to build from, a new player doesn't. On top of that, it can help players learn some patterns about how different aspects of fits work.

I think fits only need to be for the same ships/loadouts that Alpha clones can fly. That limits the amount of work required while also forcing players to skill-up if they want to progress into larger or T2 hulls.

The potential issue with this is that it might actually hurt new players. If there are functional fits handed to them, they might just take them without experimenting. And since the fits would deliberately be cheap, they may not be as effective as they could be and result in players getting frustrated when their generic fit doesn't work for whatever they're trying. The text associated with each fit would, in theory, counteract this but I'm not convinced that gamers read in-game text unless they have to (myself included).

CCP wants to add in an in game fits category for community fits