Kierkegaard Soren
Eridani Light Horse Battalion
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Posted - 2015.05.19 19:55:00 -
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The best way to get new players up to speed is to totally restructure the NPE so that it follows the EVE example of giving you tons of useful free gear whilst teaching you how, why and when to use that gear. By the time you've finished the combat tutorial you have a fully fitted racial frigate. It's about 3mil in ISK's worth of free stuff.
The Academy should be tied to the Daily Missions, which would be become Academy Missions for the duration of a player's NPE period. Each mission is tailored towards the race you chose at character creation, and each day focuses on a particular combat role, giving you missions that allow players to earn competitive (ADV) gear that will help them build competitive fits after the academy. Completing all ten missions gives you a massive SP dump as an additional reward. Completing the Academy, which can now only be done by completing all of the role-focused missions instead of an arbitrary score threshold, rewards you with an even bigger SP reward. Because let's face it, that's what really matters here. Teaching them the skill is one thing, but core skills + proto = unassailable advantage almost every time. If we want new player base growth, we need to boost them up to 10mil sp as quickly as possible and throw some decent guns at them so that they can actually have fun out in the wild with the rest of us.
It's not a perfect solution, but it's not bad either.
Dedicated Commando.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing."
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Kierkegaard Soren
Eridani Light Horse Battalion
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Posted - 2015.05.19 21:30:00 -
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Not quite. Look at the power core idea that came From two of our community; it's a stickied thread that has seriously caught Rattatis attention. Judging by the way he's approached it, that idea will actually be implemented if it is technically feasible. And whilst it will have limited repercussions for the NPE, it may well be the foundation upon which we build a better Dust from the ground up. So, CCP does listen, and can action. But yeah, they have been woefully poor at providing this game with an adequate NPE, despite the communities best efforts. That said, most of our ideas tend to lean towards expanding and over-complicating current features or just coming up with whole new mechanics outright, and as such are probably beyond the limited resources the developers have at their command. The power core is, in contrast, simple, elegant and universal in its application. Maybe all of our proposals for other aspects of the game, NPE included, should aim for similar virtues.
Dedicated Commando.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing."
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