Victor Geld
Evolved Lamb
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Posted - 2012.09.22 00:49:00 -
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I have been playing quite a bit already, but had my girlfriend join recently. This exposed me to the tutorials again, since I also used them as a warm up.
I really like the career tutorials. They have good rewards and story line, expose you to a lot of the professions and inspire you to join the rest of the Eve universe. But than they end. The transition from the career paths to the rest of the game is really jarring. Eve is all about margins, take industry for example. Trying to manufactor anything and make a bit of profit is near impossible without a lot of work as a beginner. You don't have too much money and are still learning the market etc.
My suggestion would be to put a bit more emphasis on the NPC market as used by haulers. A really good save intro to hauling is trading in trade goods. It will not make you rich, but you will also not get scammed as quickly and can slowly get used to the market workings. It would be great if something like this would excist for manufactoring too. If there were blue prints that would make items that all NPC stations would need, like the trade goods, it would give new players something to create while warming up to the rest of eve.
I feel combat already has this with the combat missions, and mining in a way too. It is the somewhat deeper elements that are the least explained and hardest to get into. Creating a less intimidating play ground for beginners would help.
Another note would be the combat career story line. One of the main NPC enemies mentions you could join him (these were the Caldari missions), but that is kind of a false promise. Currently there are no real tutorials or hints on how to join the 'darker side' of eve. These kinds of pirate tricks would also help players with pvp-ing I think, and might help with making people more used to loosing ships. My best example would be how you can join the Dark Brotherhood in the game Oblivion. Both sides of the coin get equal love with missions and narrative. Just an idea :) |