Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2015.07.02 15:18:58 -
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afkalt wrote:Newbie then either a) flies a half fit shitfit (what a great experience) or b) does "something else" whilst it trains.
That something else is not eve, because although the sandbox is huge, they're newbies and they CANT DO MUCH by very definition.
Too many vets forget the new days. Too many people train the likes of JDC V and advise folks "do something else whilst you wait" forgetting that the newbies don't have the skills to "kill time" whilst they wait.
^^^ This, all day.
Sure, I can do something else while I train Jovian Titan to X. I have 70M skillpoints and billions of ISK in ship hulls and fittings. When I was brand new, you know what I did? I inched through the tutorial because I was reading the EVE University wiki and training toward real fits, because I wanted to fly real ships. So I would run a couple of tutorial missions in my crap-fit free ship, cram as many skills onto the queue as I could and go to bed. If I hadn't had friends encouraging me to get through it, I would never have put up with it.
That may sound organized, but what I was actually doing was trying to train for as many real ships as I possibly could, at once. I had no sense of how huge the game is. I spent my first 10M skill points badly. I don't know what 2M free skill points would do for an abject newbie except induce a terminal case of choice paralysis. I know you guys are pushing ~sandbox~ really hard, but even some sort of optional structuring of skill points into starter packages would be a huge help. Maybe the college you start from could have some kind of significance?
There are skills whose only real purpose, as far as I'm concerned, is allowing you to fit every slot on a T1 ship. I have never understood that. I have never understood why Propulsion Jamming I isn't something that every new character starts with. I have never understood why skillbooks are variously given away in Aura sidebars and unrelated missions as rewards, making them easy to miss and hard to understand. I mean, if you want an Opportunity to direct people to the career agents, at least fix the career agents first. The Military and Advanced Military tutorials were designed by drunk sadists.
And I want to echo Ralph King-Griffin's concern about capacitor. I brought that up when I reviewed the NPE a couple of years ago, and it's still a concern. Outside of China, green means good and red means bad. Cap stability is rarely good. Cap instability is rarely bad. On top of that, the fitting window makes MWDs look horrible, because it applies the cap penalty and then silently assumes that the module is always running. There's no way to tell it not to.
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