New Show on GalNet

Rookies do the darndest things!

Hosted by Phil Crosby, war correspondent.

Watch these newly minted Immortal soldiers make the meet the most entertaining demises to the delight of millions of fans across New Eden. Watch as they get blown up, burnt, dissimulated, mangled and mutilated all at the cost of no human lives.

Yeah... ok.. sometimes is funny, i'm guilty of teasing the occasional NooB too...but i feel horrible after, and i let them kill me few times as a "Sorry" type of thing. Still... we should try to be a bit more welcoming with new players, and you know that.

Academy folks that have not been in the game long, hell from the very start of the game, need clear progression points until your in the clear so to speak and have a decent amount of sp and battles under your belt.

Have some basic classes to look at visually and then have the game prompt you to skill towards (For instance a brawler type "Assault" visual image might suggest speccing into damage mods and core shield / armour skills where as an advanced medic type might suggest equipment and hit point extenders like shield extenders and armour plates.
Maybe a testing area for the weapon types and ranges, a firing range would be ideal.

Also academy should be just like the original game modes, yes you can tweak the clone count but dont make it too small.

Some basic voice overs and visual guides would do the trick to inform the new players about things like null cannon objectives, what supply depots and CRU`s do etc...

Wishes audio voice overs localizations were not so expensive ><

Wishes audio voice overs localizations were not so expensive ><

Last time I checked 'athena' was localized as well as the annoying war barge lady though.

lame, but if done properly wouldnt "athena" be able to be used for more than just that localized first time speaking


I.E when using google translate, you can have it read short sentences back to you in any language, or how some old computers used to have a text to speech function

edit- I see and you know IWS, it becomes difficult to have conversations or debates with you as a lot of the time you edit your previous post instead of posting a new one

I don't have complete thoughts and I am conscious on how many posts I make. If I had not been doing this I would have about.... 40,000+ posts.

New Eden is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. Chewing up the people who can't handle it and letting them know exactly where they stand.

Frankly, if certain people were not getting overwhelmed and driven off I would be highly disappointed in this game.


The only thing it needs to do as far as im concerned is make itself worthy of the people who can handle it. There is always a market for hardcore competitive games with basically zero hand-holding. They just need to be good enough to justify their existence.

I don't think most Vets or CCP realize what a HUGE disadvantage new players have....No core skills to back into, poor equipment that is not match against anything, rubbish aiming mechanics that doesn't allow to use your skills and experience.

Dust 514 should have in the EULA ;

- Noobs not welcome, if you new to Dust 514 STFU and leave... we don't like people like you.

I remember the first time I was getting ammo from a resupply depot. I was like oh yea I found the mother load I'm so going to get so many points. 3 games I went back to the same spot thinking I was getting points! ...lol...

Then I laughed so hard at myself once I actually figured out what a supply depot was actually doing. Ding ding ding

This video is among the saddest I've seen -- and I try to use player videos to understand what new players go through, so I've seen a lot of ugly stuff. It is almost too painful to watch.

One of these days I'm going to compile a comparison of fairly typical AR medium fits at different stages across an SP timeline... maybe with a graph. Everyone loves graphs.

Will likely illustrate a quite massive chasm between starters/intermediates and veterans. Significantly behind in total health, damage output, damage recovery and possibly speed. Oh, and grenades. Grenades also scale incredibly. They don't just get increased radius, they don't just get increased damage, no. They get both. In droves.

Pretty similar story with Extenders. The prototype is 200% better than the basic, 100% better than the enhanced. It's pretty whack. Go Complex or go home.

Basically the statistical disadvantage at the various stages in a mercenary's lifetime is what I'd like to examine. The video in this thread illustrates the issue of inexperience taken to an extreme. Both of these hurdles mixed together make for quite the venomous cocktail.

Matchmaking and improved academy are two things to think about as solutions, I would also advocate looking at all instances where a jump from basic to prototype increases performance exponentially. These warrant examining on a case-by-case basis to try and determine if there is a good reason for them to spike in performance like they do.

CCP needs to give new people more SP,

and they need to know this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYXffQMXXxM

^ Here we have a well done tutorial about a gunplay technique. Really, new players NEED to see this video, really interesting.