so here a simple idea for some new berries to get ramped up on.

4 on 4 conflicts in a small map with a 50 clone limit, and you must be in a 4 man squad to enter.

single supply depot in the center of the map to fight over, no tanks allowed.

simple and efficient mode for new players to ramp up on.



another option I considered was simply create a newberry game mode, if you play in newberry mode you get scaled down rewards the more sp your character has, after 1 mil the rewards would begin to lower by 3% per 100k sp on the character.

I know this is eve and the general rule is learn after dieing 150 times to heavies spawn killing you, but I'm just suggesting that their are other ways to learn to play.

then you find what ever local fruit you can find and improvise.


also anyone can we be a newberry, this is an equal oppurtunity suggestion, any all all who wish the title of newberry are welcome to have it.

And what if a squad of elite goons shows up in this 'small-scale conflict'? It's bad enough when they dominate a 16v16 match, but they would completely annihilate any noobs trying to squad up.

This is a very interesting idea. We're always thinking of ways to ease new players into the game as opposed to throwing them directly into matches against guys with full proto gear. There are other benefits of something like this as well, where people can test their fits in a more controlled environment and the like. So it's something we're considering, though there are various hurdles to overcome to get it in place.

at -3% per 100k sp after 1 mil sp, they would return no sp and isk by 3.9 mil sp.

This is a very interesting idea. We're always thinking of ways to ease new players into the game as opposed to throwing them directly into matches against guys with full proto gear. There are other benefits of something like this as well, where people can test their fits in a more controlled environment and the like. So it's something we're considering, though there are various hurdles to overcome to get it in place.

also consider a FFA or Free-For-All type mode

How this could be consistent with the lore:

1) 6/8/12 mercs are sent to and area to find some "rare" salvage.
2) Each are given 10 clones (if you die 10 times you don't respawn).
3) Whoever has the highest WP at the end of a match is said to have beaten off the competition and thus we can assume had time to explore and grab the salvage (we wont actually spend our time looking for salvage like tomb raider, maybe a quick video or something saying what we won).
4) Each participant will be rewarded SP and each person gets paid out by the NPC for accepting the contract and only the winner gets the salvage.

SP could be gained by performance
ISK is standard $150,000 for accepting NPC contract.
Salvage is random.

Awesome idea, isk could be a bit higher as the number of players invariably suggests that some guys are going to be in the negative isk as soon as they spawn the first time.