Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I see several problems:
1. Would those players be able to train skills while they are FTP?
If no, there would be almost no incentive to play the game or consider to pay for a subscription. If you cannot do anything at all, it would be so boring that people would leave after several hours and never come back.
If yes, then this could be easily abused for alts- just make an other free account and give it enough time to become a supercap pilot....
2. The things you could do while confined in a station would be mainly marketing and manufacturing. I m not sure how a legion of bored and clueless players would affect the mineral markets, but it sounds like a bad idea.
3. I am sure there are some other reasons as well, but I am not a clever person, so I cannot think of anything more right now.

FTP shouldnt have skill training.

Dunno Give them a 'grounded' status. free clones no insurance, the best they can fly would be a shuttle.

wow this idea is great needs some work but low sec only and t1 frigs and t1 fits. Just think what this would do for fw and the biggest low sec problem. Population

I'm confused. Please explain what you mean and what this has to do with wis f2p mmmorpgs lmao

pfft that idea wouldnt populat low sec at all. The wall of death the locals exhibit in low sec is the number one factor why players wont leave high sec.

You're not familiar with the culture that some of the idiots in low sec have breed.

Ill coin it as the wall of death, I talk to new players all the time and that is basically thier opinion of low sec. I do admire some of the vet alts there trying to encourage others to go but when those rooks get back thier opinon barely changes usally specially if they hit a gate camped by a carrier or two.

Even if you where to 'fix' low sec this culture remains. It would take a few years of this fear to die. Its a situation the idiots in low sec created for themsleves and they come here to the forums to complain about 'why dont they come out here anymore?'

I means seriously thats like zombies asking why nobody ever visits racoon city anymore.

and becuase of that is why Wormhole space will be infinitely more populated than low sec is despite how much more dangerous a WH system can be for a player. At least in WH space that wall of death is so random the chances of you actually getting one is the normal meh bad luck day event instead of, I can bet on a certain gate camp being there today.

Now lets look a few past solutions ccp has tried:
Forcing players into low sec. - Horribly Failed, Reverted.
Unique Resourcing in Low - Bottom line Fail.
Unique oppertunities in low - non existing really anything a low can do a null allaince can do better.
Faction Warfare - Partial Success?

So why is Faction Warfare is a success? Easy answer, It far easier to trust a milita to not kill victims instantly and honestly try to help out even if they plan on getting me killed eventually. There is some order to it all a hierarcy of respect of non existent rules, a culture if you will created by the Faction Warfarers. That there are enemies and brothers at least and I rather see my enemies die mentality.

Imagining FWing all of low sec?
Add perks such as local navy/police showing up if victimized.
Encourage raiding missions into the hostile neighboring areas
Making Gate camps neary impossible to maintain.

I say it would be much better than having a starter system in low where there definetly be a seige camp at the undock point of the rookie stations 23.5/7 of idiots waiting to 'welcome' new players and essentally preventing them from playing.

And not a single honest pirate is going to lift a finger to do anything about it, becuase like any honest pirate its not tier business. even though these idiots are killing thier business.

Ill let my caldari friend know of this then, she tries to get the new guys to try out organized pvp and goes out to kill things alot more frequently than I do. She may have ran into this alot more than I have.