Alexander Omega
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Posted - 2009.02.18 16:53:00 -
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Edited by: Alexander Omega on 18/02/2009 16:53:56
 Originally by: Iraf Thaiberd
I get it, I really do.
New players have a large number of skills and that can be confusing and intimidating. The character creation system didn't really do anything at all to explain what the skills being chosen were, or how the attributes being chosen mattered. You're removing a lot of those skills new players were starting with from the pre-sets, hoping it will be less intimidating.
I get that. It's also completely wrong. You see the problem and instead of fixing what is broken, you're tearing down the whole thing and leaving new players with nothing.
50K is jack. 50K is nothing of substance in learning, ship use (even frigates), weapons, etc. You are USELESS in this game at 50K SP. Remember that? YOU GUYS (CCP) KNEW THAT! That's why you raised the starting SP to 800k. At 800k you could hop into a racial frigate and and go DO STUFF!
You're going the completely wrong direction here. What you SHOULD be doing is fixing the character creation experience so that it EXPLAINS what the new player is choosing and what the skills offered actually do in the game (instead of just the skill name which may or may not be relevant).
This is a huge mistake, and telling new players "ok here's your 1/16th of starting skill you would have gotten last year, you can enjoy training nothing but learning skills for at least a month at DOUBLE THE SPEED!" is so throughly an incorrect decision that I am left wondering if some of you have part-time jobs in your country's banking industry.
Was gonna quote and say THIS even before I noticed who was posting it, so seriously this.
Eve has more or less the steepest learning curve out of any MMO I have seen, what makes you think new players will be less intimidated if you give them NOTHING and then tell them basically NOTHING more than you currently do about what skills do. On top of that, now newbies will have to deal with having to grind up isk to buy skills that they might not even want because NOTHING gives them an idea if they will find it useful for their play style. Oh and grind up isk with what skills? Do you know hard it is to get isk as a newbie in empire even with 800k and a good build? Do you twits even play this game?
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