EVE doesn’t have a problem bringing in new players. Last we had in 2020, about 25,000 per week sign up for the game.
Here’s a thought.
Games like PubG, Fortnite, Call of Duty, and World of Tanks are popular because of their battle royale PvP experience. In these games, it is kill or be killed. It is the PvP aspects of the game which are appealing, bringing in new players.
I suggest that CCP would retain more players by denouncing the carebears, for their weak cowardice, and embracing a new era of PvP. Let the new players die, and let the bitter vets gnash their teeth in abject misery.
The future belongs to those who undock and fight.
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I get the sentiment, but when PUBG came out, half of the threads on Steam were people with hidden profiles asking for PvE servers.
That’s the world we live in today.
You never actualy fought in EVE .
You only ganked.
That’s demonstrably false.
Any other dummies want to chime in?
CCP have plenty of systems that you can not gank new players in and from what I see gankers don’t gank in these systems, meaning they don’t have to enforce it as the rule works.
As for ganking in high sec, when I started my battle to fight these people, ganking was at a massive lvl, with some changes from ccp and people fighting back it’s at a fraction of what it was, at it’s hight you would get pages of freighter kills, we learnt how to stop them.
I’ve never once asked for ganking to be removed, I just got off my ass and started to fight back and ccp have given us tools to do the job, so we used them, if you don’t use them its not the game thats wrong or ccp or the gankers, its you.
Me my corp and AG friends have probably killed more gankers than any other group, it’s hard at time as the gankers know we can be very effect, but many things in eve are hard.
We mine, we protect our fleet, we run abyss, we protect our trace, we block off areas of space with our camping fleets to make pockets of space a bit safer.
I often wonder how many miners mined on a night we blocked the route of a gank fleet or pulled them out of warp and killed them
And they blissfully mind away unaware of the battle around them.
You see we work as a team to keep our own as safe as we can, I’m sure if they wanted to, gankers could break any of our protection fleets if they really wanted to and they do try and have in the past, once attacking a training op for new players, everyone had great fun that night.
Ganks in high have dropped of so much in high that we now patrol low and null for content and as many gank groups are in fact null groups they are criminals to us so why not go kill them there.
90% of people who cry here are solo players or very small groups, miners, haulers, station owners, who have not prepared them selves for eve in the right way.
My dream for eve was to make criminals fight to be in high sec, we should fight to make high sec safe not ask ccp to do it
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In your opinion. And it’s wrong according to the devs LOL.
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Does that include Dracvlad? 
See, THATS a good attitude.
You know what, as a hauler I should thank you for your service.
I know most dont but how can I reward you for your continued vigilance?
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No need thank you, we enjoy what we do and our salt collection silos are always close to being full.
You would be surprised what people have given us in the past saying that I suppose it’ not a surprise considering many criminal types are hated.
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Ok well if you find a need for
anything, just buzz me in game or eve mail and Ill do my best to provide, no questions, no strings.
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Oh hypocrisy, thy name is …
Lucas Kell, Mr Ratati was talking about GRIEFING. You - as completely expected - now slyly spryly twist it into GANKING in general. No Lucas, you won’t have the satisfaction of having a gank-free hisec. Did you think the extremely wide grey zone between “new player ship with no cargo” and “orca” was something you were going to benefit from ?
It does not matter if YOU think that a gank loss is not an opportunity for learning. You certainly never learned the difference between GRIEFING and GANKING in EvE. It is more important to at least make rookies aware ON TIME how the game is played. That is what I suggested, no more no less, while you single out playstyles you personally do not like, call the people bad and either want to make their playstyle impossible or simply have them removed (which would happen if indeed they were griefing)
LOL, show me when and who I “ganked” in hisec. You want to call me a bad person ? Then do so, but for the correct reason: for opposing your nonsense on the forums - which I think would be better off if you went into reading mode again.
I never claimed I did. Just another witch howl from you, barking up to the wrong tree., as usual. Did you really think I claimed that ? Well, that’s an other opportunity for you to learn something.
I, and other players, and ccp_rise are saying that GANKING does not affect retention. Not a single one of us ever talked about GRIEFING - which is a problematic behavior that is against the ToS and of course has impact on rookie retention. Your magic show never got off the ground, you’re not that good in your forum games. Not even YOU will change GANKING into GRIEFING.
You mean the “pay to buy a potential advantage” features ? Yeah, I thought that would be your plot twist. You are manipulating again, if not lying. I’m not the first one you do it to, but it is clear that that is one of the reasons why you persistently draw negative attention.
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May be I should start a donation scheme a player puts up a prize for a week, we often have a prize for the best kill and best ■■■■ up.
The prizes would have to be new player orientated as we have high numbers of newer players
I’ll have a think 
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Maybe T1 gankalysts? 
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Id back that
actually we will be needing more cats soon.
If any gankers out there who are quiters and don’t have what it takes, we can use your old cats
That would be something: ganking gankers with their own gankalysts.
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Well we have some planned targets now so why not
I assume gankers’ miner alts. Be sure to ask if they have a permit after they got popped. 
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PVP isn’t a mechanic
PVE isn’t a mechanic
Industry isn’t a mechanic
Exploration isn’t a mechanic
They are all, just like any other, playstyles that are bound by the mechanics.
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