Player Features and Ideas Discussion

New Player Experience : Rookie System Incursion Style Social Interaction


I was looking through your new tutorial on SISI for some curiosity to see what you've done.

I think you've done a great job laying the explanations out in a way that is easy for everyone to understand!


So, as I was doing this, I quickly realized that it was lacking that one thing that I know CCP really wants to bring into the situation... social interaction and player dependency.

And then it occured to me... you should have a "mini-incursion" (not necessarily Sansha) style event going on in Rookie systems. It can be optional or part of one of the missions you make. Make it a 3-5 Rookie Ship experience.

The issue is relying on enough rookies in the system to make sure you have enough people to do it together (and to stop too much interference from veteran players). So maybe only allow Rookie Ships into the sites.

The danger factor should be very low, but combined with your tutorial and the necessity for working together, it will create a really cool experience for new players.

I figure the simplest explanation would be to create sites called Drone Training Facilities? Or just have a spattering of different kinds of sites that give a little bit of story from all over EVE. Have some faction pirates from the various factions, have some empire stuff (careful with doing Minmatar attacks in 1.0 Amarr space though, always found that cheesy). For Amarrians, maybe you have to transport some slaves to a facility and get ambushed with a slave rebellion Minmatar event. Or a variety of things that are co-op based. Also, leave room for some griefing so players get used to the idea that not ALL players are "co-operative".

Anyways, I think this is a cool idea and would be awesome for a new player to have an opportunity to do this.