Re: Important update to EVE Online rules coming January 2015
bugme143 wrote:Hafwolf wrote:I am not talking about the trolls on the forums. I am actually talking about what is important to ccp "new players". My think is maybe take some time every now and then and help rookies get them going on the right road. Eve is harsh to new players and old players are not really new player friendly. With multiple account it would be fairly easy to Help give advice maybe command some mining fleets or help with missions in rookie space in which help them get what they need. Also the code is another problem take advantage of rookie players if rookies had and experienced miner help with tanking there ships it might reduce the code's impact. I look at it this way. Probably helping people in eve with my multiple characters might actually help me in the long run with CCP if they see a positive from the multiboxing community.
I'm "attached" to a community and we regularly help new players, including ISK donations. I also help players in other chats with missions and fitting advice. I don't know what CCP realistically expects us to do that most of us aren't doing already.
It's not so much helping new players or w/e, but increasing positive visibility over negative visibility.
At present, when someone says "isboxer" the majority of your average eve players think one of 3 things:
1. Fucking isboxers stealin mah incursions. Grrrr.
2. Fucking isboxers gankin mah freighters. Grrrr.
3. Fucking isboxers bombing mah fleet. Grrrr.
All of those are, unfortunately, examples of multiboxers playing eve solo, and even worse, adversely impacting groups of players with said "solo" isboxing of group content.
From mine and Lax's perspective, the latest isboxer changes are not meant to remove isboxer from the game, nor are they intended to stop all multiboxing activities.
They are intended to reduce the number of accounts multiboxers can effectively use, and thus strongly discourage multiboxers from playing eve solo.
This quote is the most important for me:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/2n ... rs/cmcsthm
CCP Falcon wrote:My personal opinion on this question is that I value the integrity of the game, and its overall health more than I value the numbers.
I'd rather see 1 person playing with 19 of his friends, than 1 person using software or hardware to play solo while input broadcasting to 20 accounts.
EVE is a game based around interaction with others, and the action and reaction that comes from it.
Well, that's my personal take on it, at least.
At present, this seems to be CCP's view as well.
A few of the more ragey multiboxers have been quick to criticize me for coming out in FAVOUR of the changes.
The above quote sums up my feelings on isboxer as well. Eve is an MMO, and is meant to be played socially. Unlike other contemporary MMOs, Eve's content and pr is almost ENTIRELY player driven.
In WoW, it's quite the opposite. While it's still an MMO, the social aspect and player vs player content is quite a bit less - the focus is more on the PVE.
People care about "that group that was the first to clear big_baddy_pve_raid_39635218754."
In eve, noone gives two shits about the first people to run a mothership incursion site. What makes the news instead? Oh, group A (TVP) is all upset at group B(ISN) and they're intentionally popping incursions all over in conflict.
This would be a lot more boring if it was simply 1 multiboxer vs another. The very basis of eve are the players themselves, and groups of people are a lot more interesting than one guy doing stuff.
The biggest change I think that we need to do is to actually play with a group more often, rather than a bunch of individually disparate entities.
I know there are several people out there who do so, but almost noone thinks of isboxers as people engaging in group play with others - the perception is a bunch of loners playing eve as a solo game with the aide of isboxer and lots of accounts.
This post may make little or no sense, considering it was written on and off across two classes with multiple breaks/interruptions in between.