EVE New Citizens Q&A

Ah, the race card. Tired retort of lowlifes everywhere.

Does it make me a bad person if I listened to your interview with Mynxee, and now want to donate a few billion ISK to chain you to the bus for the rest of time?

Well in fairness I listened to that a few weeks ago. It wasn't until the PLEX prices started going absolutely nuts in the last week I started to think about how a week of morning coffee translates into hundreds of frigates for newbies.

Any thoughts on whether the announced starter SP grant for the Vanguard patch will affect the Bus program? The only hole in the prereqs I can see is the lack of Cloaking I (CPU IV is being granted), so it looks like basically anything can be handed out with an expected skill up time of 0 min.

Very true. I have my own (seemingly unique) perspective on where to start the newbros, but this would neither be the time nor place. :)

For Drones: The image I saw was from an Amarr character, which I assume is why the armor tank skills were at 3 while shields were at 1. My hope was that Gallente at least would have a higher Drones start, considering they've got the premier drone frigate. Unfortunate if that's not the case. Especially if Minnies and the Squids get stuck with sub-standard tanking skills.

I support this initiative. New players mining for an hour to make half a million ISK in a venture are highly likely to eventually see the next step as a retriever and stay in carebear mode forever and eventually quite out of boredom.

Donating them ships is a bit like giving a young person in real life starter capital so they can break out of working at the gas station for a few bucks an hour.

Its not as if these are expensive ships either, I can recall at one stage donating 300 ventures I had sitting around to Angel Project (speculative super low buy order at a school got them for about 50K each) because I really could not be bothered moving them somewhere and selling them just to pick up 100 mill.

well I suppose it could be done if we tossed a gas mining skill book in the hold of the venture fitted as such.

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Nice initiative Mike!

End of the month swiftly approaches and with that the celebration of Operation Magic School Bus being in service for one full year.

I honestly wish I had kept track of how many ships have been handed out.

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Finished a full set of laps early. Will see if I can get another run in before the weekend (By full set I mean all 12 career systems)

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Where were you guys when I started!

I had to pull myself up by my boot straps and I didn't even have any boots...