Imnar Blade
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Posted - 2009.02.21 13:45:00 -
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This so called nerf does nothing to reduce the new player experience. Not unless those who invite their mates, harp on endlessly about worthless they are for the first x months. With the skill queue, a little financial help and constructive advice, the ivitees can be doing anything a new player should be able to do within the first 24 hours, 48 if he masochisticaly insists on throwing himself into a situation where he will be taking lumps and lots of them.
If you enter the game cold it well behooves you to do the tutorial, from the descriptions, the new tutorial(s) will get a new player to a point that I didn't get to till the end of my trial in every respect but skill points. Skill points that for the most part I did not actually get around to utilising until I was months into the game. More mnoey, more mods, more ships, more knowlede of how the game works, and quite probably more skills that get used in day to day play.
Even if you were dragged into the game by a mate, the tutorial remains a good idea, because it will answer a lot of questions that you would otherwise have to bother your mate(s) with.
Yes, the help channels are full of clueless noobs asking clueless questions, but this is not the fault of the game or its designers. It's the fault of the clueless noob who refuses to expend even the modi****of effort required to click show info.
Having waded through 13.5 pages of whinge interspersed with the occasional island of reasoned commentry, I've identified a few basic classes of complainers.
- The Metagamer: Who doesn't like the fact that he will now have to expend serious effort/$/isk/main char training time in order to create specialist and/or throwaway alts.
Well this from a purist POV comes very close to being an exploit. And it's an exploit that existing players will be able to continue using as far as any existing specialist alts are concerned. The ones who will be most greatly disadvantaged are those players who join the game afer Mar 10.
- The Rabid PvPer: Many of whom, seem to really really resent the idea of not being able to shoot anything that appears on their overview and who hate PvEers with a passion.
Has this type of player stopped to consider for a moment how barren the EVE spacescape would be with out the carebares who blow up rocks to get the minerals needed to make their ships and blow up NPCs to get the meta 2-4 modules that make it possible to PvP with an edge in the weeks/months it takes to T2 spec a fighting ship and who buy those billion isk meta 13 items that no sane player will risk in fleet combat.
Well as carebare, those I hate with a passion are the gutless griefers who call themselves PvPers. Who steal to get game legal agro in highsec, and then when fought back against call in half a dozen of their mates, not for any great gain, but because it ammuses them to p155 someone else off.
- The Veruca Salt: Who wants everything and wants it now.
To these, I say buy a console, and look up the cheats on the web. This game is not for you. This game is not about instant gratification. One of its best features is the feeling of personal satisfaction one gets from having done the hard yards to achieve a tangible result.
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