New Player Feedback - Failed initial experience

[Archer_en_Tilavine]

Ignoring my earlier derp, we have the opposite problem if NPC taxes are lowered: players don’t leave when we want to encourage migration to player corps. (I should also note that the start NPC corp and default NPC corp taxes should be the same - numerous justifications for this.) BUUUUUUT we also want to temper migrations so that players don’t leave prematurely, which is technically an unrelated issue but something that must still be addressed since it would come up if taxes are too high vs being too low.

• Taxes too low = they don’t migrate to player corps as quickly as they should
• Taxes too high = they might migrate “too soon” while they’re still (too) naive and (grossly) incapable of fending for themselves.

To some, 11% tax may feel like it’s too high, but I’m inclined to disagree. Right now, it’s low enough to be tolerable if you stick around, but high enough to encourage migration to player corps after some time. It’s the latter point is that is a point of concern, however. Unprepared newbies are liable to join player corps where they can be easily screwed over by various corp politics, particularly by wardecs. This was discussed in detail by an earlier thread that discussed many of these concerns. Here is one of the points I raised from that thread:

@Archer_en_Tilavine

One idea worth considering that wouldn’t hurt and would not change mechanics but would increase visibility of potential problems for newbies would be to change the dialog box of corp invitations/application when the corp in question is at war - make it more visually apparent that the corp is at war (ie. so you don’t have to open up the corp window and read the fine print) so newbies can think twice before joining.

Notice: This corporation is currently at war!
<Brief description of potential implifications>

I should have said this in the original quoted text, but a similar warning should be issued for joining corps not at war: just because the corp isn’t at war now doesn’t mean it cannot be at war in the future. Basically, notices need to be posted to indicate that there is a liability involved in joining a player corp (though perhaps these same notices could outline the benefits so as to not be overly negative).

Let’s be honest: 11% tax doesn’t really hurt much. Even back when I was a newbie I thought to myself it wasn’t a big deal, and the majority of the newbies I work with (quite a few) also think it’s not a big deal either, so it’s not just bitter-vet talk. I honestly think lowering taxes is going to cause more harm in terms of slowing migration to player corps than it would benefit newbies.