Stephanie Nevaeh
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.02.17 12:26:00 -
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Being a newbie to EVE I think the tutorials are pretty good. My other account which is 20 days old has gone through the whole of the starting tutorials. So I guess the tutorials that I have done are as up to date as they're going to be. Things I remember:
The Advanced Military Tutorials.
They are all pretty simple to complete you get given ships, which you lose it tells you you're going to lose them so do not worry about this. It teaches us about insurance, about updating our clone, it teaches us about weapons. Its pretty good, but, the last mission is and it might just be me, a pain to complete. If I remember correctly you're given a ship to use thats a pretty decent ship Tech 1 Destroyer I think, but I believe it requires Frigates to be trained to level 3. To train them to level 3 I believe it takes 8 hours. So its a bit of a pain having to wait 8 hours to be able to complete the final mission for 8 hours. I personally found this mission very difficult in any ship I have had available.
The first time I did it I lost my Coercer due to being Warp Scrambled whilst the tutorial warned me this could happen I could not get hold of a Warp Core Stabiliser in the station I was in and knowing what little I know of EVE I was worried flying to another system I did not know would get me blown up and anything I bought would be lost. Silly I know but its the little newbie worrys like that that are an issue for players like me, fitting the ship is hard to understand too, do I need to fit 4 Laser turrets can I get away with 2 or one. The pirates in that last mission hit hard and on a second attempt I had to take one down, warp out come back, take another down, warp out, come back for the last and I think that took a couple of attempts to get right. I know you guys at CCP dont want to dumb down the game and thats great, I got fed up in other MMO's dumbing stuff down, some developers seem to be wanting to make games a one button press = win type of game. However being the starting tutorials would it be such a bad thing to dumb them down a little, or maybe even give us a wingman that just uses healing technologies to help us out when we're getting our ships destroyed. I know losing ships is part of EVE the advanced Military Arc does a good job teaching us that. But for a newbie its still pretty sad to see that beautiful ship you just gave us blowing up :)
Exploration Tutorials.
I love exploration its what I want to do in EVE I really enjoyed it. Probes are hard to understand, until you visit youtube and watch the CCP Probe tutorial. Then it makes sense, but I see a lot of issues in the Rookie channel that people struggle with. I watched the video and picked it up straight away, I am not great at it yet, but I can now find things. Would it not be possible to create a rewatchable in game cutscene of that tutorial video that auto playes once the player selects the Exploration tutorials. That video is perfect and if I can learn how to scan from it, anyone can. Other than that I found the exploration tutorials to be fine as they are.
Trade Tutorials.
They are again pretty good, they explain what to do what needs to be done, the biggest issue I found and its a personal annoyance more than anything is that at certain points you have to create things like a space ship. It takes time of course to make one and there is a bonus reward if you complete within a certain timeframe. However because some of them take time to make if I started the mission an hour before I need to log off for the night, I will miss out on my bonus because I might not get online for 19 hours or so. Its really just a personal niggle for me I guess.
All in all the tutorials are excellent as long as one listens, reads and pays attention to what is required. Some things are confusing but then what isnt. I am working through them all again so if I notice anything major that I believe could be improved I will make a note of them. But the way things are at the moment they're not at all bad from when I first tried EVE many years ago, got lost in an hour and never logged in again :) I am thoroughly enjoying my time in this game now. So much so I purchased a subscription.
Sorry for the long winded reply by the way, I never know when to shut up.
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