I am considering starting a bit of a charity for new/mid level players with emphasis on providing them the gear they need as they grow and learn in the game. I feel like this will work much better than giving out ISK that will just end up burned or given away with little effect on their long term standings within New Eden.

This would be focused around basic and advanced gear so that they can toy with fittings at a reduced cost as they learn.

How many people would be willing to donate their salvage to my charity to fuel it getting started up or would I just be giving away my salvage and then giving up the idea?

I would donate the whole s**** I don't use (that's a lot) but somehow get as salvage...
I can either sell it for an insignificant ISK amount or donate it as long as I know it really reaches the ones who need it...

Donating and letting someone else decide where gear goes is something I'd never do. Good Luck though.

Would you accepet strongboxes?
Have plenty of these. You can force open them to get some junk.

I'd be worried that with so many mercs donating gear, you'd just purchase Jara and use the increased percentage to sell all the gear. It wouldn't be much but if you were flooded with free gear, you'd be flooded with isk which is every Dust 514 merc's dream.

I'm always happy to help people, but I wouldn't just blindly send random gear and let you decide what to do with it.

Obviously a valid concern which for now I can not really argue against.

If you do not want to donate to me just drop a squad invite to some of those guys on the bottom of the board and pass them some of the gear from salvage and maybe even advanced AUR gear from strongboxes that you will probably not use and give them a couple of pointers on how to use it.

Before giving ISK to newbies usually meant they were just going to buy more of the fits they were dying in until it was all gone but trading gives us the ability to expand their knowledge of the game somewhat by force and maybe give them a better chance at sticking around.

As a community we can make player trading the best or worst thing to happen to NPE in the history of this game.

Well....as one of the lucky ones who has enough isk (not trying to humble brag), I can attest to the freedom of being able to play with any of the weapons in the game to be liberating and to also expansive as a player.

I agree with you that the new players need to be able to find the weapons which suit them and it needs to be easier for them outside of the lousy payouts from pubs....I just don't know how it would be done. I mean perhaps a collection of known new players would be good BUT also exists the risk of them being alts for veteran players, looking to cash grab free gear or free aurum.

The plain and simple fact is that without getting to know every single merc intimately, our Dust 514 is ruthless and shallow and greedy.

And that sucks big time.

Understandable. I know you have a capture card so would love if you would like to do similar training stuff and allow me to link the videos along with my own.

7/10 of the stuff I get, I'll never use. That includes officer gear. I'm looking to trade my officer gear for other gear I might use, but with with stuff like the 50 something Ak.0s I have, I wouldn't mind donating to help out other players rather than getting the scraps they give me for selling my stuff in the marketplace.

I am considering starting a bit of a charity for new/mid level players with emphasis on providing them the gear they need as they grow and learn in the game. I feel like this will work much better than giving out ISK that will just end up burned or given away with little effect on their long term standings within New Eden.

This would be focused around basic and advanced gear so that they can toy with fittings at a reduced cost as they learn.

How many people would be willing to donate their salvage to my charity to fuel it getting started up or would I just be giving away my salvage and then giving up the idea?

I would definitely donate, and would buy stuff to donate. Hundreds of militia items of every single type so new players can try all possible combinations and get a feel for what they like, and then once they start skiling into a particular item, I would donate standard tier versions of that item

new players should not struggle to buy militia gear, no one should. Only advanced +