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I'm suggesting they use the drug dealer model. Give everyone a little taste to get them hooked and make them want more.

My reaction is mixed.

One one hand, I liked the XP and that it helped with off-optimal attributes.

OTOH, it will save some time. One of my toons I was doing the daily on won't need to log in for the next six months. A couple of others will log in but won't ever undock. Since these two will still be logging in and since the metric you are monitoring is logins not activity their decline in activity will not hurt your metrics.

You are the professionals, but if WWB winds down and logins stay flat, that would seem like a win to me.

For me, the absolute, unequivocal goods news is the 22-hour daily is going away. Every other MMO I play/played, the daily meant daily. I was always perturbed CCP was doing something different yet inferior. I suspect dailies will be back at some point after logins/activity drop and hope they come back as actual dailies.

...AND avoid upsetting players by first implementing something that we knew in the long run would hurt the game (and bear that in mind. This mechanic didn't just "wash" as the OP would have you believe. I would bet real ISK that after the initial novelty wore off, dailies were starting to show the opposite effect of REDUCING desire to log in that was predicted!)

...AND avoid upsetting players by taking away a free thing, which will now reduce logins a bit more for a while before they return to normal.

I have a number of ideas to help you develop Eve PVE to make it interesting, dynamic, and meaningful. I probably should hold out and apply for a job, but I'm feeling generous. It's a lot so look for it in another post.

So,

you're getting rid of a feature you acknowledge created more content and enabled people to advance their playing options further...

I don't know what to say other than you're a bit dim.

CCP has made other new-player boosting features in the past, I don't object to changing this feature somehow to benefit them exclusively. CCP Rise is saying it's being removed because it is not accomplishing what, or as much, as they hoped.

When I started in 2008, I could make a few choices in character creation that would boost SP in certain areas, and I had two level 5 skills on day one. That was pretty cool. But after a while, the choices were deemed problematic, and (I may recall this change out of sequence) NPE changed to nerf starting SP under 1m, but include a period of 2x accelerated SP training and bonus remap(s). CCP has also tried SP boosts for new players in the past via "cerebral accelerator" boosters included with some subscription packages. None of these NPE features required shooting a thing to get SP.

honestly the thrill of the hunt kept me and my 10 guys loggin in on days we didnt even want to play eve.

and sometimes we found a reason to stay on. othertimes we didnt.

i feel that if the daily... was a bit more complexe to accomplish, and thus more rewarding, youd probably see a bit higher rise in people loggin in. if that is what you are after.

you could even expand it to a 'weekly' thing.

i am sorry to see it go. it was really a change in the right direction tbh.

hope you read this rise.

it really helped me train the new players faster. specifically when fleeting. there would be some occasion when we needed a guy to quickly get something, like jam skills or tech 2 gun specializations. and the new players usually saved their pool of this sp for situations like this. was super helpful.

I've been doing it in a velator with lasers! Makes it 5% more exciting.

I've removed some posts that were off topic, unproductive, or spam.

Keep it constructive dudes.

A few of my recent kills were nerds warping to belts for the daily sp. Thanks for removing my content.

Let alone log in for some. As returning player it was one of the features that looked interesting that brought be back for a bit before Legion launch.