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If they aren't committed to pay, they aren't commited to play.
This is not a causal player game. 

Other things must be done to get players in game.  The Devs will have a better RoI in getting current players or players that left game to play vs loring new free/casual plays to come and stay.  their efforts need to be focued on fixing sheit and adding content, not tying to get a gamer with no skin in the game (aka cash or time) to come and stay more then a very short time.

Agree.  It was better before.

Top robot kills (participation, by type) in December 2014
Robot  Kills
Arbalest Mk2  183
Artemis Mk2  71
Kain Mk2  59
Artemis  55
Baphomet Mk2  51
Seth Mk2  44
Baphomet  44
Mesmer Mk2  41
Castel Mk2  38
Cameleon Mk2  34
Intakt Mk2  34
Kain  23
Castel  20
Arbalest  19
Gropho  18
Seth  16
Troiar Mk2  16
Cameleon  15
Tyrannos  13
Waspish  12
Gropho Mk2  7
Prometheus  6
Mesmer  6
Zenith  5
Zenith Mk2  5
Riveler  5
Vagabond Mk2  4
Termis  4
Ictus  3
Ictus Mk2  3
Sequer  3
Intakt  3
Tyrannos Mk2  2
Troiar  2
Vagabond  1
Prometheus Mk2  1
Argano  1

Top robot deaths (by type) in December 2014
Robot  Deaths
Baphomet  35
Arbalest  31
Arkhe  24
Termis  23
Artemis  17
Kain  16
Prometheus  15
Kain Mk2  13
Cameleon Mk2  13
Arbalest Mk2  12
Sequer  12
Cameleon  11
Baphomet Mk2  11
Artemis Mk2  11
Waspish  10
Argano  10
Castel  10
Yagel  9
Seth Mk2  7
Tyrannos  7
Troiar  5
Castel Mk2  4
Seth  4
Riveler  4
Intakt  4
Sequer Mk2  3
Gropho  3
Gargoyle  2
Vagabond  2
Vagabond Mk2  2
Zenith  2
Zenith Mk2  1
Intakt Mk2  1
Prometheus Mk2  1
Ictus  1
Termis Mk2  1
Mesmer Mk2  1
Lithus  1
Tyrannos Mk2  1
Laird  1

Congratz!  Give that man access to the 'elite players only' forums

there are some good suggestions in here, but until the the game develops a little more content for new players, all of these efforts will only get more ppl to try the game then leave.  The issue is retention.  Tweaking production isnt going ot make new players stay.

I think we should hold off on our active recruitment outside of game until the PvE mission 2.0 comes (if ever).

But item #3 of the OP should be implemented regardless.

QFT

Thanks for the bump.

Thank you so much for the update!  It looks like a bunch of new & exciting things will be here soon.

Listen to Ville on buying new players love. If you can't lower the price, promise them something that will excite them (ei, temp booster for x days (if they log in every day), credit in the store (which we will have someday?), pink arkes, anything will help).

Now, hurry up on the PvE changes so we can keep any new players more then a couple of weeks.

Thank you for your efforts

Also, why no comments on the spark tp changes in this patch, there is still time to fix it by then

This is all true, but most new players aren't going to have the NIC for a T4 scanner.  Most of them just use the T0 that came in their arke (since they are trying to do T0 assignments, assume most of them are new) and they get frustrated (these kids today) because they have a 30% accuracy and artifact distances are all over the place.
Since I assume the T0 missions are trying to reinforce some of the skills they all blew through quickly on the newb island (gotta get in that mech before the weekend is over), this particular mission causes a lot of new player heartache and the devs should think about giving new players a little help here (or make them repeat the artifact class over summer vacation;)

If only we could get the folks in this games queue into perp.

I spend more time in queue or waiting on server to come back, then i do in game.  Thats also the only time I open the minimized perp windows too, though I think I am playing perp more because on QueueAge.

I think the language barrier is getting us here (at least on the plasma issue).

I belive his issue (#3), was that there is not enough description/info on things.  His example was plasma.  He does not know what it is for or where to sell it.  He is correct, in general there is nowhere that says "plasma is to be sold for NIC at a terminal or traded to other players and has no other use in the game".  And based upon the number of times I (and I am sure all the rest of us) have answered that question, he is correct.

Our only answer is ask question in GC or corp chat, memorize Zortarg's guide and fight to get over the steep learning curve new players. FYI: I dont think he wants new players spoon fed, just wants teh tools to be able to figure stuff out (ie info tab that says. plasma is only used to get NIC)

But back on topic....
Yes, it is difficult for new players. This game is great, but it just lacks enough content to keep new players involved (or vets for that matter).  THis is currently the topic of almost every post on these forumes (except the corp dialog garbage)