Player Features and Ideas Discussion

to make the game more exciting for beginners the only thing the developers need to add are huge battles, they already tested it with the carrier event... they need to make it a given fact that randomly pirate NPC carriers spawn all over the galaxy, high low and nullsec, with this, new players will be able to see bigger fights right from the start and are able to join without much effort

the main reason most of the player come to eve is the big fights, however at the moment those are not accessible, incursions you need to be in a fleet and those fleets lock you out if you are new, nullsec not working either, because there are no big battles every day, at least not for a newb because they are unable to find or attend those

its way to difficult to find one when you are new, too many hurdles, joining corps, incursion channels etc. if you are new, you got no clue where to go, however if their would be frequent CONCORD Broadcasts to let everybody know where a pirate NPC carrier spawns, maybe even a carrier fleet from time to time, people would go there to kill it, you could have a big battle every hour in the game, without much programming done, good for the players to get into the game and have some action

thats all the people want, people want to see those 1000 ships on the grid

they run missions and rat anyway, its nothing new, just bigger fights to see what the game is about... you missed the point

you are not much around are you? there is nothing going on... I'm talking about big fights every hour not every 6 month... maybe you missed the scale I'm talking about... searching for big fights is to look for a needle in a haystack

Dude I live in WH space. Do NOT talk to me about the difficulties of finding a fight, especially after the nerf we just got.

i agree that incursions are a pain in the arse to get into. id like some more group orientated hi-sec content. it doesnt even have to pay anywhere near what incursion runners get.

But random carrier spawns here and there is not going to be the big battles i think ud expect. People see the big fights in the news involving Null sec. Then they join the game and mull about aimlessly in hi-sec, where ppl rarely play together.

nullsec has no big fights either, I mean not frequent enough not big enough, those carrier fights could be a starter, or for the time waiting until something really big is happening like BR... nullsec is 90% of the time extremely boring

you need to be able to login and have something going on, however most of the time nothing is happening... frequent npc carrier events would change that and bring people together, out of that the rest of the game could evolve much better I think

with big fights in regards of the carrier event, I mean PVE, 500+ people fighting the NPC carriers

you need to present new players what eve does best, big fights, it does not matter if it is PVE at the start, its just important they see those 500 ships shooting something, they need to get clue about what eve is about... this would just be a starting point

at the moment they login and nothing is happening, they just shoot a rat or do some missions, all other stuff is not accessible, at least not easy enough

the game does not show beginners what it can do, most of them leave, never getting a basic feeling about what the game is able to provide

with those carrier events they get a much better feeling what eve can be, and they could have that with their ibis 1 hour into the game, just to see what its about...

And why would anyone bother? What is in it for them? What is worth the risk of having PL drop 200 carriers on the fleet attacking the NPCs?

so all these 1000 every hour in these big fights with all the capital ships are you going to pay for them?

It would be pretty cool to have random open incursions that encourage as many people as possible to join the fight. It could have some balancing design to make it so a small group is capable of winning while a giant group won't spoil it by clearing it in a few seconds. Maybe a NPC carrier spawns and as players shoot it, more NPCs show up to defend. The faster it dies, the more ships they bring in for backup, and the more potential loot there is.