DigitalCommunist
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Posted - 2005.08.03 20:39:00 -
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Personally I don't think you give CCP the credit they deserve for this. Comparing how it was for new players two years ago to how it is now you'll see a huge difference.
Two years ago:
- no guide or manual (official manual with box set became outdated before game came out)
- tutorials were broken and very short if you did get it to run
- there were no functional agents
- many skills were not properly seeded in the market
- buying a new frig or cruiser sometimes meant 30 jump round trips through lowsec and no instas
- no insurance or clones
- no "warning" messages for doing dumb things
- little to no protection in 1.0
- general market bugs and balance issues that made the game unplayable
- few GMs, even fewer volunteers, fewer tools to support them
- you started with 0.00 isk
Today:
- Player guide
- Official help channel with lots of volunteers / GMs
- new updated tutorial with voice (works too)
- tutorial agents, that lead you to better agents with implant and standing rewards
- all skills easily available
- market works and is fairly unexploitable
- lots of player supply, so you're not paying 700k for a tristan and 14.8mil for a thorax!
- you start with some isk
- more civilian mods which help a lot
- insurance and cloning support
- agents (which means mining is not mandatory)
- quick help if you need it
- rookie complexes
- upcoming COSMOS constellations in rookie areas
- powerful concord
I mean, there is nothing to complain about. Whether a person continues to play eve after 14 days is more or less depending on how eve presents itself, how good the community is and how open-ended the game feels, not how quickly they can grind from the start. The learning curve is steep, but the same can be said for any game this complicated. If it was made any easier, I don't know how much of a sense of accomplishment people will feel when they get into the next biggest ship. Cause trust me, CCP isn't churning out ships faster than you can train for them.
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