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Posted - 2015.07.05 11:52:57 -
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It's important to differentiate between old players that start new characters and new players starting Eve up for the first time.
New players don't know about skill points, attributes, races or career paths, they know what they've seen in the trailers and what they've heard about from their friends who play. Their friends have not told them about the grinding out of isk or skills, they've told them about the fun they've had in their corporations, flying in fleets , dog fighting with other pilots/NPC's and finding untold wealth in exploration sites and wormholes.
New players will expect a tutorial.... all games have a tutorial don't they?
Should Eve provide a tutorial? CCP have decided that they shouldn't, I guess new players will just have to deal with that. So CCP have decided on 'Opportunities', an achievement system similar to minecraft + others. So they have to buy stuff with ISK they don't have and train skills when they have no clue what a skill queue is etc etc. I guess this 'sandboxy'.
'Opportunities' was tested on Sisi? Who logs on to Sisi? not new players....
New players also get dumped into 'Rookie Help' where they are dependent on the advice of other players, hopefully there will be a Vet or 2 in there to make sense of things. Occasionally an ISD may appear, usually to mod the chat and throw a few warnings out, not many are online for more than a few minutes, yes - I know they are player volunteers, but is it outside the wit of someone to organise at least one ISD to be in that channel at any one time?
So, CCP are fond of giving us stats, what is the rate of trial to subbed accounts with 'Opportunities' as compared to the old tutorial system?
I've played Eve long enough to know that CCP will not re-implement the Aura tutorials, that they will continue tweaking and 'improving' opportunities, until such time as they decide to completely revamp it into something else. All I ask is that some thinking and planning is involved this time.
I also know that other players will trash what i said here, so go ahead :)
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