In-Game Events and Gatherings

Anyone capable of undocking in a Skiff is not a newb. Look at the skill requirements. IIRC it's 40 days to sit in one.

Ships in EVE are consumables and newbs may as well learn this early on in their career. I lost my first destroyer to rats (that level 2 security mission that's way harder than the other ones). Lost another ship or two to players soon after subscribing too.

In CODE. at least (including supporters like me that are outside the alliance) we are pretty good at outreach to people under a month old that lose a ship to us. Most clients have been checked - before engaging we will know whether you are likely to be high skilled or low skilled, about how many EHP you are likely to have, and whether you have a permit or not.

We've probably checked your PVP experience on that character (killboards) and have definitely checked your character creation date.

All of these factors will impact our outreach. Someone losing their 7th failfit Covetor of the month in one belt will get a very different post-gank EVEmail to someone losing their first ship ever. Someone with a history of impressive solo kills will get a different response again.

Welcome back ...

To the players who want to hunt down the returning Alpha/Omegas - "Perspective - use it or lose it" - Richard Bach

To CCP - you're either giddy you've motivated your pre-existing, stagnant player base to gleefully hunt down the briefly-returning former customers to EVE, or you're horrified and genuinely pissed your new soon-to-be-gone source of new revenue is being hunted down for fun and profit by your [edit: declining] streams of revenue.

Fact : companies that focus on success through customer experience do 70% better than those that don't. The only customers who are going to enjoy this experience are the ones you've got already. Bottom line, once I read this thread my credit card went back in my wallet ...

As a former member of a corporation whose 'whiskey papa' tactics were banned so all you crotchety Omegas can fly your precious capitol ships without being eaten alive by frigates, I see no problem with CCP severely banning players who practice hunting returning alpha/omegas for fun and profit. None.

In the end, CCP, you're either going to craft an experience all players to enjoy, or not.

Good Hunting!

Chi

Yup, you and Foxbolt trying to protect CCP's bottom line.
Good luck calling out CCP's financial peeps, I am sure they were just waiting on your input.


I will be trying for first place on my freshly minted Alpha, having fun while these gloom-n-doom carebears cry about EVE not being wow.

Sure, no problem at all!

Post reported

Bloody idiot

the funny thing is I think #2 through #7 are good fun and I'll be trying for a couple of them, but item #1 is exactly the kind of thing that CCP has in the past taken action against (and not just in newbie systems).

I'd suggest dropping #1 and just focus on 2 through 7, still plenty of targets.

There's a reason Rule 1. exists. If you think you can become no.1 in #1 by being selective and target these characters only, well, you'll be burned out the first week already.

lol

>reports post about content creating contest
>calls them idiots

Go back to WOW, and please do send me your everything

good enough?[/quote]

No. Still waiting for you to point to the part of the contest that says to target noobs. Just because someone makes an new character doesn't mean that they are new.[/quote]
Vets creating a new account know how to avoid most ganking attempts so the main group that will get killed in this event will be noobs. If you target especially new players when there is an update that is intended to draw in new players this is damaging to EVE! Normal ganking is bad enough for noobs but you are stepping up the killing of noobs.

Again, please quote me where i mentioned that anybody should be ganked in the first place....