Convict is not a new player and starting a new character every week is not remotely the same as being a noob.
Stop equating vets fresh characters with new players. It’s disingenuous and dishonest.
Mr Epeen 
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This is just not true.
Did you ever consider to not play alone and join a group?
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I’m in a loose-knit group now, it’s no corporation but we do missions, sites, mine together and have fun exploring the possibilities in hi and low sec. None of us are vets so we learn together.
Amatin mentioned “Rookies”, I’m sorry, he said “they have the whole game to explore” I disagree.
How long will a rookie last in Null? Surely not enough time to explore. He may fly around for a bit but he’s fish food, I have no illusion about that.
Again, there is no need to do that alone.
Being in a group is a great start, but, honestly, if you want to learn how to play this game, an experienced group will get you there with less losses than a group of rookies.
I am pretty sure I wouldn’t play this game today if I wasn’t recruited into nullsec after two weeks into the game. That way I needed to learn how to survive and couldn’t postpone any pvp activity to ‘when my skills are ready’.
One of the big problems of player retention is that people get recruited into dead corps or corps that want the new players as slaves to fund the directors.
…or the fact they believe they are stuck in highsec
It’s not just a group of rookies, we’re friends. I wouldn’t play with anyone else especially in EVE.
I’m not so much in a hurry to get to end-game content and I think I can speak for my group as well. We’re enjoying the game and taking our sweet time, learning and having fun at the same time while skills are running.
It’s just my friends and I. No greedy corporation, no recruiter, no tax except NPC taxes and we pool our stuff together by sharing ships and isk.
I’m flying Han’s Stabber and I just transferred 500mil isk to Celah’Vee yesterday for whatever she needs. Just supporting each other.
Losing ships is ok with us.
We’re not stuck in HiSec, we’re in LowSec right now and each of us has been to Null, looking for ore.
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That’s perfectly fine. I would have loved to play with my clan friends from another game. But when they noticed you don’t respawn with your ship and modules intact, they stopped playing after a few days. The majority of players don’t start out with friends to play with and are easy prey for bad corporations.
So I see you do well with your friends.
One thing to keep in mind:
There is no such thing. Everything relies on what you want to do. Whatever what you define it to be for you it might be something totally different for someone else
Player retention of course is about having fun. Losing ships together with a group of friends is fun. losing a ship while playing alone is not.
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Han first started this game alone. I know he has had a few accounts before he settled for the one he has now. He was solo for a while then bid us to play with him. We would’ve been a dozen in the group but some of our other friends just didn’t want to play. Not their kind of game.
Yes, we had three people leave the game because they got ganked in LowSec. I tried to tell them it was their fault, that they were flying silly, but they rage-quit. They didn’t like getting ambushed without being able to do anything once they got caught so they left.
I got ganked a couple of times and I did get frustrated but I’m sticking with it, it’s part of the game.
I understand. I guess I meant, by end-game content: flying the supers and dreadnoughts, being in a corporation and having POS and able to defend them.
True.
But one can still be in a corporation and lose ship while flying alone, like going to Jita to buy/sell stuff… Can’t be protected by friends 24/7, we all have a life.
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Could be having issues waiting for CCP to roll out new forum features:
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Always a pleasure to share content with you! Glad you got that Prophecy back, and boiii can you fly that ship! 
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Thank you. And of course, it’s my favorite ship!
I can’t wait to fly the Damnation !!
Just look at that beautiful S.O.B!
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Don’t buy one. I’ve got one waiting for you when you’re ready to get into it.
And you got mail.
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What are you saying? You went to Null on your very first day and came back in one piece.
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Sure, probably because I was in an insignificant Corvette though.
Alright !! Yoo-hoo! Thanks! Keep it on ice, it’ll be a while.
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btw CCP convict is getting a pay check for doing that
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great idea .I am sure people would pay for that that slow mode on the forums lol
That pic is hilarious!
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I disagree with the idea of reducing training times for anything. Eve is an should be a sandbox, a long-term thing, where your character grows and changes over time. These days, too many young people want everything instantly. Where is the fun in that? Where is the feeling of achievement?
Take your time. Play the game that is in front of you. Enjoy this beautiful sci-fi universe that is available for us to play in.
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It is at the heart of the issue here, I think it is a really complicated issue in that while we all know that ship fitting and ship selection is key to PvP, high level skills give you an edge in that it increases your chances, like a balance against mistakes. So a new player who manages to get the right ship and fit, is then in trouble because he makes a mistake and his skills are not enough to give him some leeway unlike the 20m SP character facing him.
The question is how do you empower new characters with the feeling that they can compete without taking away what you have indicated is a major draw of the game.
If CCP could work that out then they would be able to retain more of the new players, but the thing is that whatever they do ends up back firing such as skill injectors. I would have limited the ability to use skill injectors to 20m SP only. But I would have set up new characters with key skills to fly a racial frigate type very well. Anyway that is my attempt to deal with this issue.
@Natalie_Patrovita I must say I like how you and your friends have approached the game, respect to you.
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I have well over 50 mil SP, Think back to when you started the game or better yet start an alpha. it not about wanting things faster its about getting people to some capable footing in less than 6 months