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Black Ranger Squadron
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Posted - 2012.09.20 08:41:00 -
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Tau Cabalander wrote:Science and Industry forum is the place this should have been
I disagree with that statement. This is relative to all new Citizens experience in EVE and I was going to post something similar here regarding the industrial career choices in EVE.
I've seen a lot of post answering indy questions and that's great, but nobody has addressed the real relative issue here which is that manufacturing needs to be much more streamlines for the new player experience. Infact, mining is the only real industrial choice for beginners. You can jump into mining from the first day and make profit, but manufacturing, invention, copying and R&D take much much longer to make a real profit from.
Not only do you have to wait ungodly amounts for the ingame skill points which hopefully you put into the right places, but you will be like a baby trying to play the stock market, because you're knowledge of what eve even is will still be in it's baby stages. Most people that start playing even will find out very quickly that it is very easy to make serious mistakes at the beginning. Mistakes = wasted time = wasted real life money = unhappy customers. The truth is that you're not alone in feeling overwhelmed, all professions in EVE are in the beginning and that's part of what most people love about the game, but what's frustrating is the fact that mining and combat mission running are by far the best choices and the others are just a waste of SP until you get tired of mining or mission running.If you think ships need re balancing lets take a look at the professions available as well.
I'm no sure if it's even possible to make anything else a good beginners choice, because everyone will start with little to no idea of what EVE is really about. This should be explained better right off of the bat. Hey here's the pros and cons of you career choices.
Mission running:
Pros - profitable, can learn pvp skills simultaneously, most exciting starter career, easy to understand for beginners.
Cons -Might die and lost you're ship which cost isk, but you have insurance!
Mining -
Pros - Retardedly easy to understand, can't really screw up mining. Can do this with minimal risk of loss in high sec. Can make about the same amount as mission runners with similar skill points. Can play semi AFK if you like to pauy to play semi afk which I don't, but some do, consistant, not much changes
Cons - Boring, can't pvp in a mining barge (Make mining lasers do damage!) hull mining ftw
All the other beginner career choices -
Pros - Add profit to mining and mission running,
Cons- Won't stand on their own feet like mission running and mining which you can specialize in on day 1, means training for another profession and more time before you're really even playing the game, only exlporation skills will mayapply to pvp combat, the most overly complicated things to do in the game.
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