Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I would like to see the eve universe a little more welcoming to new players. It seems important to ensure a fresh stream of incoming new players to keep Eve alive and moving forward. While I have little first hand experience of noob life in high sec, as I was a market trader with an alt and moved to null sec as soon as my trading could support it. I have also spent my fair share of time in a high sec war decing alliance, The 0rphanage a few years back. I have been in a few high sec alliances rather recently while semi afk from game. While I was in high sec, for my limited amount of time, I realized how often high sec alliances are war deced, which seems nearly continuously. Standard procedure for corps or alliances who are not “good” at pvp is to dock up for the duration of the war thus making them bad war targets in the future, which of course is not the case if you still live in high sec. Wars at the moment seem to be way to grief people and used for little else, which is not necessarily a bad thing, if it hurts our chances of acquiring new long term players then it concerns me a bit.
Perhaps a way to address this issue would be to limit standard wars to either a specific region or an area of space either in AU radius or jumps from a specific system. Any additional space could be included in a war for increasingly an increasingly large price. I believe this would allow war decs to be continued for pleasurable purposes, such as blowing people up for no reason. But at the same time allow newer players to at least undock and do something somewhere in high sec space, instead of what I fear, just not logging in and forgetting about Eve. I believe this change along with limiting the amounts of missions available from agents, which I heard CCP discussing today in the fan fest stream, could make wars more interesting in high sec, by adding competition and choices, as well as giving the mercenary alliances more business in a manner that adds depth to the overall game.

I don't particularly want to see high sec become more safe, especially for older player. I believe currently that high sec offers too much reward for too little risk, especially when you look at rated complex in high sec. Even lvl 4 mission running seems more profitable than c1-c3 wormholes. At the same time I would love to see the numbers of online people at any given time increase more than it has since I have been playing.

Those suggestions are satirical. It's made to expose the absurdity of the "I should be invinvible" people bleating all the time.

Furthermore, my suggestion has always been "generate killrights on dec dodgers", instead. And that is primarily because I consider dec dodging to be an exploit.

When you say things like "I don't want highsec to be more safe" and then say things like "Jita should be wardec free", I have a hard time taking that seriously.

And in effect, you would be turning what is now one of the most dangerous systems in the game, into something far, far safer.

That is what I said when I told you highsec does not need to be safer. This would make parts of it more safe.

Which is quite frankly unacceptable, highsec is too safe as is.

Especially since wardecs can be removed with a fraction of the cost to declare a war in mere minutes.

It has nothing to do with the pilot age, and everything to do with the pilot's attitude.

And CCP cannot patch that.

Oh, and EVE is supposed to be harsh. I heard that somewhere.

And despite that, this alone of all MMOs in the past ten years has consistently grown while not going free to play.

So clearly, they're doing something right.

Why sacrifice a working model and alienate real, paying players in hopes of making the game more appealing to an entirely theoretical playerbase?

Remove the ability to set criminal status in high-sec 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0 systems (normal or suspect only). This would eliminate a lot of ganking, station games and corps AWOX'ing in the major trade hubs and high security regions.