Do you still require me to haul it myself, or do you deliver?

I finally got around to push my rep from zero to.. 3 at the moment, I think.
I do think that stepping stones for newbies are needed.
First of all some might think "I can totally skip this, level 0 was super easy so I go to 3 right away. 3 out of 6 can't be that hard, right?!" and boom they go. Very frustrating for some people. In addition it gives you a feeling of progression - kind of like leveling your WoW [popular game example] Character for the first time.
However I do think that the progression from Level 2 to 3 is a lot slower. For some reason I only get + ~2.5 rep compared to 5.x rep from level 1-2, while I am at a techlevel where I could burn right through, making missions tedious at this point. I have talked to new players and they felt similiar: Progressionfeeling is good and important, but it sometimes takes too long because the missions are not challenging enough to play.

+1 to all Xsavia said.
Removing ore is bullshit, same as making fields smaller. If you are a new corp you need to have it easier to replace possible PvP losses, not make it even harder.

Same for NPCs: If you remove all static spawns and the beacons (as proposed on the roadmap), without a proper alternative, new corps (who already are less effective in PvE than vets) will have it even harder to come by fragments/kernels in order to get on their feet without doing diplomatics (also known as begging/becoming a pet/getting in an alliance they're not ready for or that's even fitting their idea of playing)

I would leave static NPCs in until you have set up a proper alternative, either something alike incursions or similiar that is actually fun to do and will automatically get a lot of players to indirectly farm kernels/fragments, or a less-botable type of static spawns. Another alternative would be to develop some way of detecting bots, but that would include devhours and paying more attention to it, while bringing little positive for current players.

However I do love the idea of reintroducing roaming red NPCs that are tough. I remember the thrill of dodging observers, gathering people just to kill them and the idea of red caravans are generally very good and welcome. I'm just not sure if it is enough to cover the needs of new corporations.

besides the Lag, it's really annoying to have a popup in the middle of a fight. Even if not in PvP

Congrats mate

I do believe this belongs into Open Discussions?

Off-topic: Shouldn't really have to worry about avoiding to shoot cover, just to avoid ruining everyone's pvp experience because of lag.

As you said, with the next patch there are even more icons added, if we now add another one for range, and one for cover, that will cause a headache even without using VR. I'd like a more customizable HUD though, but that's another topic.

Since fights with explosion damage take two places of my top 3 early days memories of perpetuum, I give a big
-1

Explosiondamage is fun to watch, especially for newbies. I remember having 20 new guys in STC (zwiss days, before all the whining and forum wars) and blobbing vets in lightbots and assaults and enjoying to see him blowing himself up by popping us.
Also a great anti blob mechanic and they make you think while pvping instead of blobbing. If you prefer blobwarfare, better stay in eve

Have been downloading the 2.42mb "hotfix" for the past 10 minutes. Even with my end-of-the-world connection it should take less than 2 minutes. PLEASE FIX, I GOT 3 CLIENTS TO GO

EDIT: Paused on 1.45mb for 30 minutes, restarting..

EDIT 2: Error on my side, I apologize a lot, patching is fine now, the lag is still horrible!

bump!

+1 !  While you're at it please add different corp wallets and better corp right management!