Angeleh
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Posted - 2014.02.05 12:08:00 -
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Well I have played before, but I made up an alt and tried being "new".
When aura gives you your first weapon, she says you are probably used to not needing ammo - but at this point in time the player has never owned a weapon at all. Maybe add some information about the rookie ship coming with the ammo-less gun if you get another later instead. Took me a while to figure out what those ammo-less weapons Aura talked about was.
And some of the things I had to help the most with in Rookie Help was:
Hardpoints: "My ship has 3 weapon slots, I have 2 blasters but when I try put in the third it says I can't" and "how do I attach a gun to my Condor?" is something I heard a lot. And I understand the confusion, all other demands a weapon has for the ship fitting is listed in fitting information, but nowhere does it say that a turret needs a "Turret Hardpoint" and a launcher need "Launcher Hardpoint". Would be much less confusion for the new player if hardpoints were added to the fitting tab in weapon info screens.
'You get ammo from Aura right after the gun, if you were on the station when you got it, it is in your item hangar. The tutorial could use to be more clear about when to undock at this point. Maybe change tutorial to teach people to load weapons in fitting window while docked - then undock them and tell how its done in space when need to. This will reduce all the flying back and forth - which I at least would find disheartening when only 5 minutes into the game.
That there actually is a wide range of chat channels to join.
How to look for a corporation, search tool, recruitment channels and forums.
If you do tutorial and then start with business career, you do not have a mining laser, your first ship is boarded in space with no mining laser / gun - not the default rookie fit. And you get your first laser as part of the Industry career.
How to buy and sell. Why is there no market tutorial? A lot of people are also looking for a vendor to sell their loots to.
That you can't change ore holds, drone bays, drone bandwidth, hardpoints, energy slots on your ship (except in the cases that the bonus from ship skills increase it).
Scamming is a fact outside Rookie Help - it is not rare, it is not uncommon, it is normal and you have to look out for it.
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