We need an exordium mini game on the forum. 
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You dont feel it…but it sounds like the world just exploded when it happens.
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Not sure if this has been mentioned, but perhaps you might want to install tethers on the gates leading into Exordium. I flew over there and there was a fleet of tornados parked at the Yulai gate to Manifest.
If the goal is to help with new player retention I do not think said new players completing all the agents and then leaving in haulers with all their stuff just to get it all obliterated by the usual suspects is going to help with that.
Also gone are the conveniences of close schools like Hadaugago or Uitra to trade hubs. Now they have to haul all the stuff they acquired further. No more scan spots for completing that static daily fast either.
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Yulai doesn’t matter for the new players, since there’s four different one way exits out of Exordium to their respective faction space. Yulai is only for dumb vets and truly clueless noobs to get bombed.
If you had actually read the thread, you would have seen that @Geo_Eclipse_Oksaras posted this earlier:
CCP Fozzie : One other thing I’ll note because I realize it’s not mentioned in the blog: the shipcasters from this space can only be used once per character (they’re intended as one-time-use shortcuts) to limit power projection issues
Yes, one time use. No reason a new player should need more than one use once done with the tutorial.
Completing 1 set of 5 Career Agents gives the player about 8 different ships…
Having the shipcasters be a one time use means they’ll have to do a lot of jumps back and forth through Yulai just to move their ships to a new location in their chosen Factions space…
The total value of all their starter ships is like three million, and most of that is the industrial which can bring along two of their frigates no problem.
Doesn’t matter how much they’re worth, I’m talking about the logistics of moving their stuff and the amount of trips required to do it…
You guys need to start looking at it from the view of an inexperienced brand new player… Those ships will mean a lot to them and they’ll want to take everything with them when they leave the starter region…
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Okay, so they’ll be moving ventures, and frigates through Yulai. And?
What is it you want? Yulai to be 1.0? What is stopping people from making the same arguments to extend 1.0 even further from there, as player could “camp” out those as well. Did you just want all of Highsec to be 1.0? All this also hinges on the fact that players would even bother ganking cheap ships. As FC has stated before, ganking of new players is very rare.
Dude, I’ve had enough of your stupid BS replies… My statement has nothing to do with ganking… Now pull your head out of your arse so you’ll know what I’m talking about..
I said the shipcaster’s should always be available as a one way gate to their home faction, not be just a one time use only..
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And fozzie stated if it becomes a ganktown preventing newbies from leaving or mike entering, they’ll deal with it
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Ill put it to the test.
Ill be making a new character on June 9th and leave from the system through Yulai just to see what happens.
It will follow a quote from an old science fiction movie from the 80’s…
“We exist for battle. Our creed is to live fast, fight well, and have a beautiful ending.”
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Yulai is going to become gank central after Exordium goes live - at least for the immediate future.
An act that would totally make no sense at all. What would be the gain except to just make an already declining player issue even worse.
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It turned out the squirrels needed some time to get used to the concept of a bridge.
I probably know that particular bridge because it’s not too far from where I live. And apparently the bridge was indeed barely used in it’s first year in 2012, I found an article of 2022 (in Dutch) citing they were being used hundreds of times a year ten years later. Sounds pretty good to me!
On topic of Exordium:
Will our starting schools still exist in HS in the future? Or will they be moved to Exordium too?
And all of the career agent missions, will they stay available outside Exordium or be moved to the new newbie systems? And if moved, will they also be reduced in number, or be changed to only be completable once?
Why would new players ever leave the cradle? Gankers will waste time there.
Doesn’t matter if you make Yulai a “no ganking” system, they will just camp all of the gates leading into Yulai. EVE is a PvP game, whether you like it or not…
Theyll have to eventually as they become more tuned to the game. If they want to advance into larger ships, more possible player corp interactions, and bigger wallets…theyll have to leave.
Or, to further strengthen the biggest reason why players leave apparently…apathy will result.
Thats exactly right.
As a supporter of ganking in general…i find this is still the challenge of the game that every new player will have to deal with first. Its the first thing ill try to pass good info on what to try to do and how to possibly avoid it.
Hopefully, if anywhere near half of the newbro victims get that “i want revenge” when they get ganked then theres a small positive to this whole deal. Theyll stick around longer and become future gankers themselves.
My wallet is already happier just thinking about it.
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