Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The "retention" aspects of the OP were in relation of HS podding and even HS ganking. To then pretend you were referring to something else indicates you are a horrible writer or when called on your nonsense you just move the goal posts which is dishonest.

Eve has alwasy been, and hopefully always will be a sandbox MMO that encourages emergent game play for the most part. That is much of the game play may not be either anticipated or intended, and so long as it is not unbalanced should be allowed to stand.

So all I can conclude is you are ignorant of the game itself or trolling.

Edit: I am also going to put you firmly in the troll category since you posts indicate that nobody buy you and the OP care about retention. That is a blindingly stupid position to take.

There are two kinds of podding going on in eve, legal and illegal, legal from kill rights, dueling, corp wars , and LEGAL agressions, and then there is illegal podding, from ganking and direct illegal aggression, the game mechanics KNOWS the difference, because in the legal case CONCORD WILL NOT get involved, and in the illegal case CONCORD will get involved and will destroy and flag the perpetrator(s). THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS NOW...So the game mechanics KNOWS the difference, and with players being killed in missions the NPCs NEVER pod a players, and also the gankers only use cheap ships and cheap implants on their victims only, knowing that CONCORD will destroy their ships anyway, so this whole issue is solely about "claiming" the amount of kills on a kill board like in some seaside resort arcade game which cheapens and lowers the value of such a good game as Eve.

As HI-SEC illegal podding is possibly a reason for the fall off of new players trying to start in eve, and fairly established players deciding they have had enough of this new phenomenon that has started, and left, I suggest that in the case of Illegal podding in HI-SEC SPACE either on miners, or from gate camps, that ...

1. The podded entity is "resurrected" back at the LAST station it UNDOCKED from, with its complete compliment of implants if any.
2. The ship with all its modules and rigs if any, replaced there too.

ie for the victim player it is as if the incident never happened.

As for the perpetrator, as CONCORD will destroy the ship but at the moment doesn't pod the capsuleer, I suggest

1. as punishment for such an action, the game CAN pod the perpetrator and resurrect them back at their "HOME" station with a NEW bare clone, and a rookie ship. (like it does with the victim now)
2. That NO kill rights are issued for the incident to the victim, and no criminal flag is issued to the perpetrator, ie no need for revenge.
3. There is no ship debris at the point of the incident of either the perpetrator or the victim.

hopefully this action will bring back established players who may have lost a lot through illegal ganking and got fed up and left, and also, wont deter new players from staying on after their trial period.
this way the victim isn't at a loss for this incident, and the perpetrator just gets a slap on the wrist off CONCORD.

For the so called perpetrators, well they have 0.4, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1, 0.0, and Worm Hole space to carry on with that aspect of the game.

Here's the ultimate question.

HOW IN THE HELL DID YOU GET POD KILLED IN HS????

When did you log in last time?

Threads like this should just be locked out of hand. It's not a sincere suggestion. It's a ranting, histrionic-laden complaint garnished with a preposterous "idea" that would never and could never be introduced to the game.

Actually, pretty much every thread that invokes new player retention in the OP should be doomsdayed off the field. Everyone truly believes their personal bugbear is the key to "fixing" retention.

Funny that you should ask, check the time and date signature on this post it was about 10 minutes before I write this.

Ah the usual taking things out of context, perhaps that is my fault though so I will give you a pass. Or perhaps it is simply your lacking the ability to think outside the box, or perhaps you lack the ability to think about what MIGHT happen if Concord podding gankers was to become a thing. Any way it is let me explain.

If the rules were changed and Concord did start podding the gankers then they would adjust.
Clone replacement (in actuality implant replacement) would be factored into the decision to gank a specific target.
They would adjust by using cheaper implants or none at all and use other means to recover the lost dps.
No doubt there are other means they would come up with to negate the costs associated with pod loss.

So when you account for the inevitable and the gankers adjust to the change as they have to all changes in the past you end up with clone replacement being an insignificant, or completely irrelevant cost.

There are two kinds of podding going on in eve, legal and illegal, legal from kill rights, dueling, corp wars , and LEGAL agressions, and then there is illegal podding, from ganking and direct illegal aggression, the game mechanics KNOWS the difference, because in the legal case CONCORD WILL NOT get involved, and in the illegal case CONCORD will get involved and will destroy and flag the perpetrator(s). THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS NOW...So the game mechanics KNOWS the difference, and with players being killed in missions the NPCs NEVER pod a players, and also the gankers only use cheap ships and cheap implants on their victims only, knowing that CONCORD will destroy their ships anyway, so this whole issue is solely about "claiming" the amount of kills on a kill board like in some seaside resort arcade game which cheapens and lowers the value of such a good game as Eve.

As HI-SEC illegal podding is possibly a reason for the fall off of new players trying to start in eve, and fairly established players deciding they have had enough of this new phenomenon that has started, and left, I suggest that in the case of Illegal podding in HI-SEC SPACE either on miners, or from gate camps, that ...

1. The podded entity is "resurrected" back at the LAST station it UNDOCKED from, with its complete compliment of implants if any.
2. The ship with all its modules and rigs if any, replaced there too.

ie for the victim player it is as if the incident never happened.

As for the perpetrator, as CONCORD will destroy the ship but at the moment doesn't pod the capsuleer, I suggest

1. as punishment for such an action, the game CAN pod the perpetrator and resurrect them back at their "HOME" station with a NEW bare clone, and a rookie ship. (like it does with the victim now)
2. That NO kill rights are issued for the incident to the victim, and no criminal flag is issued to the perpetrator, ie no need for revenge.
3. There is no ship debris at the point of the incident of either the perpetrator or the victim.

hopefully this action will bring back established players who may have lost a lot through illegal ganking and got fed up and left, and also, wont deter new players from staying on after their trial period.
this way the victim isn't at a loss for this incident, and the perpetrator just gets a slap on the wrist off CONCORD.

For the so called perpetrators, well they have 0.4, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1, 0.0, and Worm Hole space to carry on with that aspect of the game.