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New Player Experience talk @ Fanfest 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbHqFgn4SOw&list=PLldrBIEnJ5hMIXwk_e8-VZb0EldJqXmg_

starting @ about 7:00.

The whole thing is really worth a watch.

The game does not end at new players.

Before thinking about how to implement tooltips we first need to understand why we need tooltips in the first place and what for. Or we may just as well start implementing wings on trucks. Just because we can.

If we need tooltips for NPE and we want them everywhere, then let NEW players have them, because countless ad popups get annoying fast when you already know what they would say before they appear and just sit there dreading the inevitable black monolith of death and eternal suffering, and there's no AdBlock for EVE.

If we need tooltips to show useful information then make them show useful information. PROTIP: I know caracal is a cruiser. In fact I knew caracal is a cruiser BEFORE I downloaded EVE client for the first time. In fact I will remember that caracal is a cruiser for the rest of my life after first seeing it. I don't need the game to remind me that caracal is, in fact, a cruiser. And that the sun is, in fact, a sun. Every single bloody time.

And if we want to give players useful information, then we have to determine first which information is useful when. If I see a ship warping out to a bunch of celestials, the useful information is which celestial I'm pointing my mouse at. Not a christmas shopping list. Not a content of my cargo. Not JUST a list of celestials in a general direction of somewhere. I need to see the specific one.

When in space, there are certain layers of information depending on urgency. Spatial awareness (and the ability to immediately act on it) comes first, and any work on relaying information to the player must never be done on the expence of it.

In their current iteration tooltips are there for the sake of tooltips. "Hey look, we can do this new shiny black boxes, let's put them everywhere without any thought put into why we need them".

I watched all of that presentation live and I’ve just watched the whole thing again. CCP Rise doesn’t say they want to get rid of the tutorials, plural (in fact he quite specifically says they have no intention of touching the career tutorials), but says they want to replace the introductory tutorial with a different form of tutorial which presents information in a more general, more involving manner – primarily by getting rid of all the text boxes. So new players would still learn what a station is, but not as part of an isolated, stand-alone concept as happens at the moment.

so you are telling us that we need to wait another 6 month or so till the game become playable again? really? and that is a good thing because?
because after those six months we will have the game that we had last week?
the game was working fine, no one asked for this stupidity. instead ppl are asking for some stuff FOR YEARS NOW - nulsec sov fix, pos rebalance- and CCP is wasting time and hundreds of hours of developing time on crap like this or some new deployables that no one want or use.

The CEO of CCP promised on this forums that CCP will not ignoring their playerbase anymore and listen to what they say; so here we are and we say: "stop wasting your time on such useles things and for the hundred time again, if it's not broken don't fix it; oh and GIVE US THE DAMN OFF SWITCH ALREADY! "

p.s.: man, if they screw up such a big time on a such small issue, i can't even begin to consider what will happen with industry patch where they will change basically half of the game

The same person who came up with the horrendous exploration loot spew?

Quintessen,

I have been reading through all of your previous post and IMHO you are obviously either an alt of a CCP employee or a unemployed-wannabe CCP employee. For the life of me I cannot fathom most if not all of your responses. Do you actually play the same game we all play?

Tooltips are no different than any other setting. An on-off switch should have been deployed with this patches release. PERIOD

This post is a joke, right? If not: Dear Quintessen, you are a 2009 toon with 1 Kill and 8 losses on your KB? May I therefore assume that you are not into PVP, Exploration, or Missions? That you are either into highsec mining or station trading? Right?

Very bold to tell people it should stay as it is, because it does not affect your station trading or whatever else you do (..if you undock at all....88Mill skillponts/1 kill...you know what I mean).

And for this "new player experience mantra": every 6 year old with an IQ above room temperature will not be in need of 90% of the tooltips after 1 to 3 days. Good choice to hamper the rest of the player base for that "huge benefit".

And now, seriously: whose CCP alt are you?

yeah we all remember, it took 6 month to get slightly usuable, a year to be almost bug free, and still doesn't perform half as good as the old system....so yeah, we remember

Wheres the off button already? You have had more then enough time to concave your faces by repeated face palming. The veteran players do not suffer from Alzheimer's disease and we do not need you to tell us where or what something. After almost a decade of playing this game I think I have it figured out. Next time you want to put the black rubber mask on Tranquility and turn it into a limpy gimp maybe you should give a little more thought into testing things for more then 2 weeks on a server 99.9% of eves player base does not touch
Give a real reward for people to come check it on the test server. You want the test server fixed get rid of the stupid sp problem allot all players 250m unallocated sp so we can do things at our pace not wait for some dev to give me a sp bump... Give members a reward on tranquility for doing your testing this is your job not mine your getting paid by us dont forget that without your paying members you get no paycheck you guys seem to forget that all the time.................

Please give the big black boxes everywhere a transparancy slider like the other ui parts. So a player so inclined could make it 100% transperant to aproximate the former inspace list of celestials and get rid of a the wasted space in other tooltips. An delay slider for the popup time would also be cool.