Inquisitor Kitchner
Galaxy Punks
Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2012.09.05 11:26:00 -
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Literally 4 days ago I convinced a long time WoW player to know to try EVE.
Like the OP she doesn't live near me so sitting next to her wasn't an option and she had never seen anyone play the game (though she had watched some youtube videos of fights, no idea why as I find watching fights online boring, but no accounting for taste I guess).
I literally just threw her into the game and asked her every now and again how she was getting on.
At one point I asked her at which point of the tutorial was in, she gave me an answer and I was l like "Wait, you're half way through the career agent missions ALREADY?". She hadn't even noticed the transition from holding hands tutorial to basically accepting and completing missions.
I have literally told her nothing about the controls, tips and tricks etc. The only thing she has asked so far is "How do you fly without approaching or orbiting something?" which I'm sure was just a case of her not listening/forgetting the part of the tutorial that says that assuming there is one still.
In fairness she has joined my corp and as such has access to both the Goon and Test wiki (both of which are amazing resources for new players, even with their.... distinct writing style) but she only got access to them yesterday.
I'd say the new tutorial seems to be working well. Will there be bits uncovered by the tutorial? Sure but no-one wants to sit through a 4 day tutorial on how to play EVE, because most of it would be boring and you'd still have millions of things to learn.
The only bit of the OP's post that I sort of agree with is the market bit. Is there a section of the tutorial that is like "Go buy this from the market?". I don't mean a lecture on economics as its boring as hell, but is there a bit that explains to a player that just buying something doesn't necessarily mean you bought it in the station you're in, whats the difference between a buy order and sell order, if you put something on a sell order you don't get the money straight away etc. |