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Innominate
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.02.19 16:02:56 -
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Why is it that every time the NPE comes up, we get a new set of tutorials and that's it? The tutorials are mediocre but not that terrible aside from a few specific issues.
The focus always falls on the first couple of days of playing Eve, but this isn't where the major problems arise. The current tutorial missions can be a bit confusing but they aren't the real NPE, nor the problem with it. The first day(s) of the game while you're working through the tutorial missions and newbie epic arc and have something to do aren't all that bad and present an accurate(if perhaps too honest) picture of Eve Online.
It's when those tutorials end that the problems arise. Week two through ten are where things are really rough. The game provides no guidance on what to do and the options available to players in this gap are laughable. They're complete wastes of time that earn so little that a new player is better off begging for isk. They learn the basics and decide what they want to train for but quickly realize that but nothing they can do right away is worth doing. During this period too many people end up just training skills rather than playing the game, waiting for the time when they'll be able to fly something worthwhile only to quit instead.
The problem with the NPE isn't the first few days, it's the first 60 days. Redoing those first few days again isn't going to help if that first 60 days isn't improved. |
Innominate
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.02.19 16:43:43 -
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CCP Rise wrote:I really want to highlight that one of the huge benefits of this system is to NOT drop people after a tutorial with no idea what to do next.
What do you expect new players to do when they have finished the tutorial?
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Innominate
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.02.19 16:47:28 -
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CCP Rise wrote:Innominate wrote:CCP Rise wrote:I really want to highlight that one of the huge benefits of this system is to NOT drop people after a tutorial with no idea what to do next. What do you expect new players to do when they have finished the tutorial? For now, we expect most of them will go to the career agents. We make a direct hand off from our new system to the career agents in this release.
The career agents as in the ones that form the current advanced tutorials? Ok, so you've got the first few days covered, what's next? Edit: When the tutorials complete, pretend they no longer just dump the player into the game, what options does the new player have as far as things to do? |
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