Experiment successful. Discovery is not a good place for newbies.

[Govedo13]

By catering, babysitting and carebear type of gameplay your wont help the new players.
Each of the new "helpful" features brought more lolwutism and idiocy. I would try to give some examples in order not to call me hater that likes to post shit without any arguments.

Buffing economy is handy ,now everyone and his dog can field Cap ship with CAU8. No credit sinks are handy, last time when I needed to trade in order to buy stuff was like 4 years ago. 6 months+ character wipe out protection is more handy then the previous 60 days, so the stacked cash that cannot disappear due to gameplay reasons does not disappear even if you are lazy to log in the game.

Unrestricting piracy for caps is handy and helpful for new players that are noob enough not to be able to pirate in bombers/GBs/Transports.
The result of those two is that Liberty is full of unlawful capital ships with cau8s flown by one-liner shot everything on sight type players.

Really great progress in helping the new players compared with SRPed Scyllas of 4.85 that required more time to grind, be part of official faction and on top of that were not able to pirate.
Because you know new players in fighter and bombers die quite easy due to experienced pvpers compared to new players with CAU8 autoaiming cruisers and gunboats. Even if it could sound strange once upon a time this game was skill based and people got rewarded with blue msgs for improving their skills. Auto-aiming TS crutch is not a skill and requires 1-2 hours to master compared with the years needed to learn how to proper use fighter.

The two hour instead of 4 hour rule is another nice crutch example that helps the new players to log faster back their capitalship after they explode and get back to one-line shoot everything type RP. The good players rarely die so the rule didn't affected them.

Removing the 10k PvP rule allows endless resupply of nanobots making the new players immortal because they are lolwut enough to exploit the system and cannot be bothered to learn how to dodge,compared with the old players that just dodge and die like man when have to instead taking the bots from the battleship/repairship.

If the new players had to walk the walk by repping their own ship,die a lot till get some skill and learn to respect the other side, getting sanctioned or helped in the process they tend to learn the rules in the hard way by just facing the music.
Same story for the official factions that are quite dead because catering the new players by giving them the same stuff as the factions.

The best possible way to help the new players is to have more faction restricted stuff that they can see in-game but cannot have. This would motivate them to find out how to have it, hence would join factions and would fix the broken server in long term. All of the "easy mode" crutches that were provided to the new players over the years proved not only ineffective but even had the opposite effect.

Looong time ago when the sever was full and when we waited to get a slot there was something called space is dangerous...
Nowadays equivalent would be space is empty laggy and if you meet somone by mistake he is trigger happy capitalship idiot.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)