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Personally I kind of thought this Daily Objective thing was mostly geared to benefit NEW BROS.

To make the game feel like it was a bit easier to progress in the early goings where statistically it's been a falling off point - been tough to keep new people interested in the game.

So what about the possibility of taking this same feature and putting a CAP on it?

IE: This Daily Objective of killing a NPC Rat anywhere in the game granting 10k SP only is available DAILY until you reach a certain SP Limit. Then the Objective Changes to be more difficult, maybe the reward gets a little better or something too?

For me this feature wasn't really significant; but for a New Bro, 10k SP is quite alot to help you get through alot of those Skills that take less than a Day to train to help you get to the longer ones quicker.

At any rate, I'm sure CCP had a good reason to ditch it, but I wonder if maybe there's a better way to tweek the feature and keep it.

A wise man once said that data analysts do things like predicting that winter will come based on internet searches for flu.

As absurd as that example is, I feel it is reasonably analogous to this situation - it was a quirky exercise which revealed information (about player habits) which was already readily available. Who would've thought that people who weren't planning to log in would not log in? I find it hard to believe that this is creating extremely useful data that was worth the negative feelings this (and particularly the removal of the mechanic) could create in the unwitting test subjec- err, players.

Logging in is already incentivized as it is. One might've argued that in regards to skill training (as opposed to other areas of the game), there was no reason to log in except to add skills to queue, but injectors changed this - one can now acquire SP faster if he can make ISK for injectors faster. So there's no two ways about this - players already have a lot of incentive to log in for a number of reasons, and I don't see why a "good job, you logged in" mechanic was necessary. (I will, however, commend the impact of the daily opportunity on quickening the progression of new players to some degree. That part was an upside, even if a small one. I personally liked the existence of an alternative free source of SP, because the new player experience is still very bothersome, even with all the rights step taken to fix it (starting skills rebalance was a good one).

I think you would have more luck with increasing player activity if you poured effort into designing fresh content and mechanics that are compatible with the game and are there to stay, rather than permanently testing the waters with mass-produced, temporary little tests that have little long-term effect.

Positive examples of fresh, in-depth additions would be PI, FW, Incursions. Less effective examples would be Clone Soldier Tags, Mordu rats and sites. You can see by looking at both the good and the bad examples that the complex, in-depth ones are the ones that occupied the attention of players, while the simple ones comprised just of new NPCs following old mechanics are not as popular.

Try to make more of the complex ones, and fewer of the browser game "please visit the site daily so we get add revenue" type ones. They don't fit with EVE even if most of us will lap it up for in-game benefit.

good decision. the only positive aspect about the feature was "free additional SP". But the way it was implemented just did not fit to eve.

The game should be good enough to make players log in, not artificial daily pickup rewards. I am looking forward to the serpentis event and those after that.

Same for me. I am a bit sad at losing it as it was a good way to pad some Alt SP but it will not change my will to log or subscribe.

Good riddance

Please don't remove this feature. I think you guys are missing how powerful just the idea that there is a tiny daily skillpoint boost in the game can be. People that haven't played the game in years that I know have expressed interest in returning simply because of the inclusion of this daily 10k skillpoint bonus for playing the game and logging on.

It was a good idea, and really the short data collection period is only givng you an idea of how it is affecting your current playerbase, not the people who are just learning about it who have yet to subscribe or resubscribe.

At first I was against it, just like so many people in here, however; it did make me log into my alt and I actually had fun playing and progressing with him and now I am going to sorely miss this feature.

I really hope it will return!

And you wonder why it is getting removed?..

The problem is that people (like me) will have all of their alts stuck in a school system, logging in and sending one round into a rat then logging off.

Doh, recently remapped a character thinking I could get the off remap stuff with the SP from the daily. Guess not now.

I guess the total number of logons was higher but the concurrent people online wasn't, probably due to people logging in an alt then off again. Another thing to consider is that Warhammer Total War was released on the same day, therefore you'll have lost 90% of Test!

They should've expanded on that and turned it into some sort of 'weekly opportunities', where you need to finish a certain amount of tasks until you get 'cashed out'.
Lorewise, it could be funded by Concord/Empire Factions/Dubious Contacts to keep the order/mayhem in the system going.

That could be partly based on the security level of the system, with 0.5 to 1.0 is mostly ratting, -0.1 to -1.0 is more PvP focused while 0.4 to 0.0 is a mix of both, along with Faction Warfare squeezed inbetween. Commerce and Industry tasks should be available regardless of security level.