when I get a disciple and they go/quit/ leave the game. some of them log in and I ask whats up....
some have said, their first 96 ped of hunting turned into 40 ped, then they cycled that and continue to lose all of it..
some did mining, which tended to be better from MU, but it still went like 80% return of 80% return ect with 109% MU or something.. however I have had 1 good mining disciple that also graduated from it.(he got a hof in his first 200 ped spent) of like 900ped.
and i tell everyone to not craft, ive had 1 disciple big into crafting, and graduated, one that lost it all in crafting and quit.
basically, what I gather, small new people with 1 deposit, quit, because, well, its impossible to even sustain at small levels.
also... most hunt so here is an example, when puny mobs... 10 hp, only provide an average of 60% returns, its not good, now this might be due to overkill because they don't offer any small UL guns, at least not in all places, but for 10hp... guns should be shooting 1-2 or 1.5-3 hp.... but we don't have any UL guns that do that small damage for them...also... puny give the highest amount of nova/frags, which is horrible, on top of that, you can get a streak of no looters, my personal record is 19 in a row... I get 7 in a row all the time... how is that supposed to look?
anyways, I always recommend to not kill anything below 30 hp with a small gun to anyone I talk to that is starting out.... puny mobs...10 hp... lets just say for eco, it costs... 3.2 pec per kill, with overkill, kill cost is normally 4-6pec. puny mobs generally only give 1-2 pec per kill... right off the bat, that simply doesn't work.
that's why I think new people don't stay. they think this is a small mob, I should be killing it, but with over sized guns, no ped and mathematically bad kills, its almost made to fail.
personally ive never had a good return on anything below 50hp, but some people will spend weeks on puny mobs...
sorry to be kind of ranting, I don't mean to, but for retention, noob things need to be relooked at.
.....also.... the intro into this game, like the tutorials... that u must complete should be like 1-2 days long, some planets, you can completely skip them or I think doesn't even have one.....basically how it is now, even if u complete lets say calys... you giving probes, a gun ect, kill 5 monsters, mine 5 things, and do errands... you barely learn the game in my opinion.