Idk about bonuses, just need more of a separation betweens the vets and the low sp peoples, rather than them getting roflstomped every damn match....then they might stick around n set down some roots rather than just go "**** this spawn then die in less than a minute cycle"

I probably got killed 200 times before I even got an Assist.
No (utterly useless) Academy. Just deploy and figure it out on your own.
It sucked.
That's why I stuck around.
I don't play easy games. **** Nintendo-minded Care Bears and the need to coddle people like they're premature crack babies.

I hate to quote Eve nerds, but...

HTFU.

It's true steel sharpens steel. specially in DUST. but there are ways to make player groups starting DUST happy.

I strongly feel players 5 million skillpoints and below should be segregated from the general population. But they should also have the ability to join a squad via squad finder, friends, and corporation that will allow them to be part of the general population ques for public or whatever matches.

Much like being able to pull in a DUST player from anywhere into your corporations PC.

Then only allow squads in which every player is at or below 5m skill points to actually Que up for the Training grounds.

Then it's trying to setup an intuitive quest and achievement system around the training and walk through of the NPE that DUST could have. the ability to take a player by the hand and walk them through DUST.. and have an avenue for players to skip it if they so choose.


The whole concept of PVE is stupid for training people.. If we can't make a PVP model work in this IP or the future of it, it is doomed to fail regardless.

Kdr/wpdr mm fixes everything.

I was just looking eve offline and saw how many new players joined the game in the past hour and though how little of them stay.
So I suggest giving new players bonuses and better tutorials.

New players need to be able to learn how exactly dust works, things such as setting up a suit, flying a drop ship, scouting, setting up a vehicle, using equipment, how amrour and shields work, the tier types, skill bonuses and pg/CPU are all alien things, that need deep explaining to them for them to be able to get into the game. I suggest these be community made, as the community knows how to do these things much better and this would put pressure off ccp.

A new player would get a bonuses to multiple things such as : a 10% bonus to damage, 20% bonus to hacking, a 15% to max sheild and armour and a20% bonus to sp gathered. These bonuses would slowly reduce the more sp the player got and eventuly the bonuses would be entirely gone, but at this time the player would have enough sp to not need the bonuses to be able deal with hardened vertains and FOTM players.

The only other thing I would suggest would be ranked matches, though I see this would cause a lot of complications and would require a lot of time and effort to establish.

You should remember that probably 75% of new players created are people creating ISK for them self.

As far as retention goes, I have said it many times before and will continue to say it, the academy can not be a static cap. The academy should consist of a rolling average of your last 3-4 matches.