I wouldn't mind providing a little information for the rookies about how to fly tackle, interceptors and such

like.
1: How to tackle without dieing really really fast
2: how to hold tackle long enough for your friends to arrive, and not die really really fast
3: and maybe even how to not die really really fast when your in a small ship :D

For this to work you have to inform those "new players" such thing will take place, don't think many of them read devblogs.

For this to work you have to inform those "new players" such thing will take place, don't think many of them read devblogs.

My firs few days in EVE a joined such a session of an Alliance named Rookie Empire. It was hell of a blast, learned lot of things. Being 3 days old i ventured with them into 0.0. The thrill i had, omg was fantastic. I succeeded to get back n highsec by myself without dieing, following some basic tips they gave me about warping to planets near gates first, scanning etc. Was so proud of myself. It was the longest hour of my life and the longest 20 jumps ever :DDD

How will chat trolling and disruptive behavior that is not technically against the EULA or ToS be treated during the sessions?

How will chat trolling and disruptive behavior that is not technically against the EULA or ToS be treated during the sessions?

As much as I love these kinds of things. 17:00 UTC is horribly early for the US folks. I am still at work at that time .
While I don't expect CCP To be up that late.

A good US TZ Session would be great. Could someone set something like this up too?


(Also, is there a way to search for corps with Timezones that fit Eastern US... I have to search twice: once only till 8pm my time and second 00:00 -> till I fall asleep time)

While I am an "Experienced" (as in I've been blown up more times than I care to recall) tackler. There's still things that I learn every day, especially after returning from a break.

Interesting...

This sounds like our PvP-Basic class....

You can use our public wiki for some material if you like.

Sounds good to me! Will these events eventually graduate into real lowsec roams or life fire exercises?

May I suggest the use of spawning rookie-pirate NPCs as demonstration targets for new players to test their mettle?

CCP and GMs have a lot more power to manipulate the game world to demonstrate various aspects and situations than player instructors do. :)

Why not help groups like eve uni and agony do this they have been doing a long time anyway and probably know the mechanics better than most devs they are also practiced at dealing with large classes?

It was definitely inspired by stuff people like you guys do! In fact, there's a heavy possibility we'll be in touch in the near future.

We will be doing this by advertising them in-game via rookie corporations and the Rookie Help Chat.

Nine years, guys. Nine years. Guest classes, open to all. Recordings for classes if you missed them, video walkthroughs, and a well-documented wiki.

E-UNI has been doing this for nine years, and staying out of any political BS so that everyone can benefit from its teaching.

Nice to see CCP finally recognising all the work everyone has put into all that, like the 6 years I spent running it as a second full-time job... oh, wait.

CCP, I am dissapoint.


glepp - IMHO, there's little chance of them putting Agony out of business. At least though attempts to teach...

Down the line we would like to see this seminar program incorporated into a completely player driven venture. That is the ideal goal.

Nine years, guys. Nine years. Guest classes, open to all. Recordings for classes if you missed them, video walkthroughs, and a well-documented wiki.

E-UNI has been doing this for nine years, and staying out of any political BS so that everyone can benefit from its teaching.

Nice to see CCP finally recognising all the work everyone has put into all that, like the 6 years I spent running it as a second full-time job... oh, wait.

CCP, I am dissapoint.


glepp - IMHO, there's little chance of them putting Agony out of business. At least though attempts to teach...

We will be doing this by advertising them in-game via rookie corporations and the Rookie Help Chat.

Track: Player vs Player Combat
October 15, 17:00 UTC GÇô Modules
October 17, 17:00 UTC GÇô Fitting Your Ship
October 22, 17:00 UTC GÇô Earning ISK
October 24, 17:00 UTC GÇô The Overview and UI
October 29, 17:00 UTC GÇô Piloting Your Ship
October 31, 17:00 UTC GÇô Skills
November 5, 17:00 UTC GÇô Crimewatch (Featuring live demonstrations)
November 7, 17:00 UTC GÇô Combat Basics
November 12, 17:00 UTC GÇô Teamwork
November 16, 17:00 UTC GÇô PVP Fleet
November 18, 17:00 UTC GÇô Progression: WhatGÇÖs Next?

Awesome news for newer players is this initiative.

Im sure I'll be on tap to help welcome them to eve with open gun ports.

Nine years, guys. Nine years. Guest classes, open to all. Recordings for classes if you missed them, video walkthroughs, and a well-documented wiki.

E-UNI has been doing this for nine years, and staying out of any political BS so that everyone can benefit from its teaching.

Nice to see CCP finally recognising all the work everyone has put into all that, like the 6 years I spent running it as a second full-time job... oh, wait.

CCP, I am dissapoint.


glepp - IMHO, there's little chance of them putting Agony out of business. At least though attempts to teach...

Well, since they made of point of saying that organizations like yours directly inspired the effort...

Part of what we are looking to do is to invite guests from the likes of EVE Uni, Agony, RvB and others to come along and be guest lecturers and instructors. Down the line we would like to see this seminar program incorporated into a completely player driven venture. That is the ideal goal.

Correct me if I am wrong, but EVE Uni places requirements on behaviour of its members, right?

Part of what we are looking to do is to invite guests from the likes of EVE Uni, Agony, RvB and others to come along and be guest lecturers and instructors. Down the line we would like to see this seminar program incorporated into a completely player driven venture. That is the ideal goal.

2. There is no political drama. And don't say the organizations are drama free.....because that is just naivety. If there wasn't you wouldn't have to put in your .api, have all your alts known, etc. Anytime you have a corp you have drama, politics, financial considerations, etc. This will allow a player to stay somewhat outside of this while trying to learn.
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Inserting relevant comic about E-UNI recruitment practices here:

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20120625

For this to work you have to inform those "new players" such thing will take place, don't think many of them read devblogs.

Please ensure that you make these sessions as professional as possible. Do not allow trolling at all and record the sessions for sharing on youtube and eve main site.

Ideally once you have these done, you could also get the learning agents to point the player at the videos and live sessions.

They have been saying the same thing since before E-UNI existed, making vague promises and suggestions they will do things in the future.

There comes a time when you just get tired of waiting for that bus, and decide to walk...

Edit: I wish CCP luck in this - they will need it. It was literally a full time job when I ran E-UNI, and I suspect they will have a significant problem finding enough volunteers to keep this running it for no reward. Unless they are paying them all in Gold Scorpions.

My inbuilt sense-maker machine wants to ask:

How will noobs know that they should be reading devblogs in general, and specifically this devblog, in order to learn that there will be live training sessions?

And failing that, will the events be advertised at the new players channel?

(Anyway, from now on I'm going to brag about how i do play a game that requires that the devs themselves teach to players how to play it... EVE is that much hardcore, harr harr! )

Sounds good, all I would like to say to CCP is please have a think about "after the class" and some directions you can point people in such as the Agony classes (if people want more training in that area e.g.) or E-Uni, Brave Newbies, RvB etc.

This is a great idea, When I initially started playing Eve I only lasted a month or so i didn't get hooked until the second try. New player training would help a great deal imo.

It took me well over a year before i started reading dev blogs and forums, playing guides were only introduced to me by corp mates. introduce them to dotlan and eft etc. The new game launcher has made some of this information a click away, great work.

Identifying roles for the low skilled PvP pilot is also a good one. Fast tackle, EWAR, Scout, etc. Sooner you identify a ship line path you want to follow the better... i have a a lot of early misplaced SP which could have been avoided with the correct guidance.

My advice is when in doubt train some drone skills ;)

However, I'd like to point out that not all new players want to do PvP content, some like doing PvE content. It seems that the first half of your list (October) could also benefit those who want to do PvE content but the title of the seminars (Player vs Player Combat) will probably discourage them from participating.

Event will be advertised in rookie chat, help chat, npc corp chats, as well as potentially ingame news announcement and other means. So even newbies not seeing this devblog "should" get some form of notice.

We definitely want to do this. Right now we don't have the resources to do so, but if they prove to be popular we'll find a way to do things at a time that's better for our very large US following. This is part of the reason we are recording all the sessions and will be holding all our organized activities on weekends.

Certainly! Our PVP Fleet on the 16th will be a live fire exercise with roaming.

My big questions, and likely already asked (at work so ability to scroll through pages of forums is limited)

1. What is to stop people from coming in and interrupting, suiciding folk etc etc
2. Is there potential for this to be held in polaris to prevent/reduce such issues (would be cool)
3. Are non trial/first month players invited? I for one would enjoy covering things officially to make sure ive not missed anything out!
4. Will fitted ships/modules/etc be provided for players? I would imagine some new players will struggle to purchase things?

If these have

1: They have already said no disruption of that nature will be tolerated. Warning first, followed by appropriate GM intervention as the situation warrants. One assumes that goes from banning people from the chat channel up to "possibly" including bans and/or penalties if they refuse to back off.

2: No idea, but it sounds like this will be held on tranquility for ease of access.

3: I think anyone is invited to attend.

4: Good question. They could do it either way, although it would only be necessary for those sections where actual combat is going to happen. Most likely these first classes will only require a frigate (even a noob frigate) to go over the mechanics. More advanced classes involving combat might find a need, although they'll have to be careful that people aren't simply there to milk a free ship.

im sure most people would be okay with a pop up window an hour before you guys do your training session :) just to make sure your audiance is as big as it can get btw

The 16th is a Wednesday. Perhaps in Iceland that qualifies as "weekend", but in the USA it isn't.

MDD

My big questions, and likely already asked (at work so ability to scroll through pages of forums is limited)

1. What is to stop people from coming in and interrupting, suiciding folk etc etc
2. Is there potential for this to be held in polaris to prevent/reduce such issues (would be cool)
3. Are non trial/first month players invited? I for one would enjoy covering things officially to make sure ive not missed anything out!
4. Will fitted ships/modules/etc be provided for players? I would imagine some new players will struggle to purchase things?

If these have

Hey everyone! The EVE Community Team is launching a new initiative designed to help new players get into EVE and learn how the world works faster and more efficiently. We're calling this initiative the Avengers Initiative. Wait, no. I mean it's the New Player Training Sessions!

Read all about it in this dev blog.

I am few days new and would love to watch the sessions that I missed. Is there a link to those available yet?

I am few days new and would love to watch the sessions that I missed. Is there a link to those available yet?

There is!

You can check the EVElopedia category "New Player Training Sessions" for a list of all training sessions so far.

You can also check the New Player Training Sessions in the New Citizens forum section for further information and links.