I think also explaining to them a sense of scale, like how losing a Badger with 40m in its hold is not the end of the world, in fact its extremely easy to replace.
Remember kids, the Ventures you get in Tutorials and Career missions are free!
This is the only issue that was, at the end of all the arguing in the previous thread, identified as what made new players leave. If they knew that on an Alpha making that back in many different ways was pretty easy, then they wouldnt leave, they might toughen up a bit and not let setbacks turn them into quitters.
You know, an RP corp that ganks crappy ships then replaces them with better ones might be a wizard wheeze for a bit.
I came across a 1 day old noob who had been ganked in a 0.6 system. I explained ganking to him, and invited him to join a corpā¦whereād heād get a free replacement Venture anyway if he got ganked. The guy joined the corp, got a whole bunch of āo7ā salutes in corp chat, and seemed to be settling in nicely and was being looked after, having moved to corp HQ where there is little miner ganking and thereās folks like me ready to zap any gankers. Then 3 days later I got a Concord notification that the guy had left Eve.
Of course, people will all interpret this differently. Iāve just given the facts.
You did what you could. It wasnāt meant to be.
My most recent effort was a few weeks ago, prepping a fun wormhole hunt session with some 10 holes bookmarked for sites and safes, organized comms, fitting ships for myself and a rookie who āreally wanted to try thisā. Literally while I was doing all this, he contacted me to let me know he would no longer play eve and would biomass. At least he did warn me up front (but after the work was done).
Thatās why I wrote earlier in the thread that itās hard work that rarely pays off in terms of retention. If you believe in what youāre doing, you just plod on
From my own observations, I know that Mike sometimes has a hard time handing out free ships in the starter systems, they donāt believe or trust him. First of all, the rookies coming into this game have no idea that we actually communicate here. Second, they are not used to established players handing out free stuff, or helping out in any other way (like isk donations etc) to ease the pains of starting out in this game.
Yep, theyāve been messed up by other games and their communities. Disclaimer: I do not know what nor how you communicate with them
I seeā¦and is there some study by Stanford University on the psychic powers players use to know when another player āintendsā to engage in combat ?
noob or career systems. the new npe kinda has the chat turned off initially. Best to start convos in the career systems if hoping to contact the newbros.
The past 7 days I helped an ex-PH nullseccer who was wanting to learn how to āproperly solo/small-gang PvPā. First bumped into him byā¦ well, us both going sus in a plex.
Taught him how to correctly make station undock bookmarks, gave him a bunch of the intro frigate pvp reading material, and connected him with a very competent FW group of players ā which he has since successfully joined.
Recently I teached a newbro to play EVE, he was playing for 5 days and he kept finding EVE boring, he did security missions, mining missions and exploration.
He was so bored that I took him to low sec and teached him how to ninja loot FW system and he absolutely loved it, then teached him ninja salvaging, etc, he started liking EVE and started having fun!
Then I ganked him at Perimeter, he said he froze when he was being shot.
When he undocked I told him pod me, he delicned he thought it was kinda offensive, I explained it was ok and insisted and he podded me and I gave my corpse to him as a gift. Cheers!
Then I scammed him 4 times just to teach him, we were already buddies.
Letās cover the basics first, Air Carreer could have some basic prick things to do:
Iām getting a little uncomfortable with Gix making decent post but heās right we need a way to train player to the realities of eve.
yesterday in jita
I watch a guy lose almost a 1 billion to a tornado gank. After a rant in local and heās going to report this guy to Gm I thought id chat to him to explain why he was killed, I said I cant get your isk back but you can get some pay back and help you kill the guy.
He got all funny with me at this point and said not doing anything other than report him
You only have so much time and energy in a day. If you want to put it into a person acting like a brick wall, youāre going to quickly exhaust yourself. Take care of yourself first.
