As a brand new player here, 2-3 days. i have not made a deposit. very sorry, but i do love this game alot. and i am thinking of quitting Eve, I gotmy 1st PED's from tips from reading tarot cards to three indiviuals. 7 ped from one person, and some clothing 14 ped worth, that right there set me off in a hunting profession, i hunted and sold my loot, bought more ammo rinse and repeat. i hit a global outin the swamp, and got hooked. meet someone from Angels of help Society, and he has been feeding me ammo to build up skills. I in a short time playing have made novice sniper laser lvl 1. full set of pixie armor and kobold thighs, will i deposit, i want to but money troubles IRL. i am not even supposed to be paying my monthly subscription to eve to be honest.
But i do have an interesting idea if you want new players to get the addictive feel, you need to provide them work, Such as
I am an employer i employ noobie hunters to go hunt for me. i provide them a gun and ammo. when they kill something and there is loot. they loot it and I receive 90% of that loot automaticaly no matter where i am. they keep 10% of this for personal use.
Based on their loot gathering abilitys i am giving a screen that asks me how much can go for ammo to this person via allotment screen, also any item provided by me cannot be sold to TT, by my employee or traded.
Why would you want to offer work to someone new to the game, Living off the work of another is one thing, and payin them a fraction of the gains. If they have a feel for the game and like it an wish to be the Employer obviously they need to deposit some money or take thier pay from working under me and try to make it in the world.
There just needs to be a failsafe programed in by the programers that protect the employer. if the noob does not use the ammo in said amount of days or the noob isnt proforming well. you can fire him, and the money invested in this player to proform tasks for you is transfered back to you.
I have no clue how this would work programing wise, but there is the idea. Entice new players by a job system where you get paid more for their work with out them having the ability to steal from you. they keep 10% for the real time work they put in for you. and they will probly spend it and recycle the money back to the market in some way. and you get a chance at them getting lucky and getting a global 90% of a global for sitting around doing nothing sounds nice.
Also to further this a new termanal can be placed by the camps for jobs, wherea employer can go and deposit x amount of PED to fund a employee, and can logout, log back in and have the job complete with results of what loot dropped, who the employee was, he picks up the loot at that termanal, this wouldnt have to be a noobie thing, you could have the termanals be individual to the areas it covers, so a termanal out in some high lvl zone can only cater to those high lvl players, in the event some old school player cant make a deposit. its kinda win win imo.
But forgive me i just started playing this game. i could just be some random moron. but i am new and this is what you guys are talking about, nd here is a proposed solution from a non depositer/new player. just enriching your community one word at a time
And if any one wants a Tarot Card Reading let me know in game, i will be in the noob zones. and i work for tips only. and it is for entertainment purposes only, but there might be some truth to it you just got to try it