TIMMY DAVIS
Krusual Covert Operators
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.05.08 05:34:00 -
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Okay. Some assumptions. The CCP guys have better numbers, so these are not even guesses, just hypothetical numbers.
Newbies start with militia gear. They are playing only Skirmishes and Dominations. Say they get 2 kills and die 10 times. Each game is approx 20 minutes. So an hour a day for 3 months. SP approx 5000 per match + 6000 a day. 21000 + whatever the passive SP are? 24000 a day? So this is like 45000 SP a day. This is 4,050,000 SP.
Now over this time the player gets better, say they now on average kill 6 and die 6 times or maybe they are great and kill 10 and only die 2 times. They probably also increase their SP per game, average 6000 to 6250, through uplinks, medical revives, swarm launchers,etc. but skip that for now to make the math easy.
So this is enough to
You need approx 650,000 SP to Proto a Light Weapon and approx 1,200,000 SP to Proto a Medium Dropsuit. but most newbies don't just maximize these things, they spread around their points. Buy some Shields, or maybe some Engineering or Hacking.
Maybe their second or third character, they specialize, but just one character for now, again for simplicity.
So what is this whole exercise for? How to help newbies?
Maybe:
Give every newbie a Million SP to dole out at the start or hoard.
Double their SP achieved for the first million or two SP.
Give them a 5% bonus damage on Light weapons for the first 1 or 2 million SP earned. Or 5% for the first million and then 3% for the 2nd million. Maybe also give them a 5% bonus on Shields or 10% Shield Regeneration bonus again until 1 or 2 million.
They could double the SP until 20-25-30 levels are purchased. Going to 3 in Assault Rifle is 6 (1+2+3) levels in this scenario.
Or give them 10 or 15 million ISK, so they can use their best gear virtually all the time. Or every week give them 1-2 million ISK.
I mean if you die 30 times over and hour and only kill 6 guys over that same hour, there are other games that people will move to with an easier learning curve.
May the Haters and the Trolls at least try to be reasonable. Who am I kidding, they are by definition reactionary. |