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"A good way to discover what skills you might be interested in is the Interbus Ship Identification System, which can be found in Neocom. New skills can be acquired from the Market. Once you you acquire a new skill book, its placed in your inventory, locate the book, right click and select inject. When not all required skills are trained, look at the "show info" tab "prerequisites" to acquire those books first."

Corrected that for you.

1. You forgot to highlight the undock button before inviting players to give double clicking in space a try.

See all opportunities (opportunities map) is way too convoluted. There isn't enough visual cue to establish a sequence or a common thread. The pentagon layout makes this worse. This is no time for flashy arrangements... why did you suddenly depart from lists in this case? You've outdone yourselves.

2. Are you aware the opportunities dropdown disappears when I undock?

3. Clicking the popup (if I happen to remember to double click for the first opportunity) brings up the opportunities map. Again, way too confusing and lacks flow (or sequence).

4. You forgot to tell me how to warp anywhere to find a Hostile NPC before "Time to Fight"

Why not call them achievements? Gamers know what to do with achievements. Enjoy hunting them, even. Saying I'm hunting opportunities makes me sound like a struggle rapper.

You really need speech to go with these instructions. Aura is a head with text. Even Peppy Hare had voice when he instructed the player to do a barrel roll.

Aura falls short of the MS Office Paperclip. Would it be more motivating to have, instead of a holo-woman, an R2-D2? Not just for players, but for devs? Instead of having to pay a voice actress, you could just use flashes and beeps?

You think that's a good idea, don't you. Pay the voice actress already!

Suddenly EVE makes sense as a game designed by programmers. (omggg you guys are so out of touch... what are we going to doooo???)

I'm down with that idea, but there's still the immersion that stands to be broken when an in-game figure tells the player to double click in space. The whole thing would have to be prefaced with an RP explanation that the screen is your perception of your surroundings from the inside of your pod.

'Hostile Ships not controlled by players...'

Shouldn't it be 'hostile ships not controlled by Capsuleers'

Immersion is dying fast in this game.

Opportunities are awesome. I hope there are many of all kinds and pretty soon. I think they can replace the ship spinning feature :)

But i think there needs to be some rewards in them. I am of an opinion that sp rewards would be the perfect solution to spice up the feature and make it very important for everyday life in New Eden. Take for example DUST514 i think they overdone it a bit there by earning sp trough playing but it is an awesome feeling progressing your character trough playing also.

Separate opportunities into groups. Example:
Opportunities about fighting gives you sp in gunnery, missiles, spaceship command
Opportunities about mining gives you sp in resource processing...
And so on.

It doesn't have to be an awful lot of sp. Let say around the number of 1 mil sp if all opportunities are completed.

Old tutorials are not so bad.
These ones and Opportunities new system could work together.

Some players need to be coached with tutorials.
Others will like freedom offered by the new system.

Think about this before breaking current tutorials.

After...
Eve Online will always be a game that supposes some patience.
New players who stay in the game are those who like what Eve proposes.
I don't really think that current tutorials can explain why some don't stay more than 14 days.
The only reason is they don't try to understand or try to be helped. Because they like more accessible and immediate games.
You will never succeed in keeping players if they like Left 4 Dead game type.

A new player has a lot of means to understand this world : tutorials, GM, Rookies channel, Evelopedia, forums.
If you want to take the time to understand, you have really a lot of informations for this.
The problem is that it takes time to read or ask.
But isn't this also the pleasure and the interest of this game ?

the Opportunities new system is great it will be even better if you add even more opportunities to it

I think this all sounds decent. I like the idea of getting missions out of the NPE. With the breadcrumb style questing that many of the WoW clones use to teach players and then lead them into dailies many players come to Eve from other (WoW like) MMOs with an expectation of something similar. So they do the tutorial missions then run level 1 missions and get bored by level 2 missions and then start wondering why they are playing this game. So getting missions completely out of the NPE I think is great. Missions need to be something that they come across on their own no different than any ofher "profession".

Another problem that I see with a lot of converts from other MMOs is getting them over the concept of a level cap or BiS (Best in Slot) gear. Many of them feel that they can't PvP and won't be useful with out faction fit T2 Dreadnaughts. They have to be taught that bigger is not always better and more expensive is not usually ideal especially in PvP. So these new players wait on skill points and save up and build a pimped out ship that took them a month of doing level 2 missions to afford only to loose it with in 5 seconds of jumping into low sec for the first time. I can't even remember how many forum posts I've seen on this. Players wondering how anyone could even play this game when you have to grind missions for a month just to PvP for 5 seconds.

On this next point keep in mind that I spend a bit of time on the New Player Q&A section of the forum so this might be something common only to the player type that goes there for answers. That being said I see a lot of players trying to "go it alone" and they think that they can solo eve. They go to the forum for help and shortly there after leave a rage post about how this game is not playable. This game needs to be played with friends and I think they need to get that idea in their head as soon as possible. With that in mind maybe we could have some type of group content in the new player areas.Something that forces new player to fleet up and help each other out or get help from vets or something like that to complete a specific goal. But ideally not content that is just too difficult for them and they need to be "carried" through.

Continuing on the group efforts idea I think that there are some core game mechanics that could be changed to help new players. I throw these out there in the base idea state knowing that they need to be fine tuned and knowing that I am talking about core game mechanics here but listen with an open mind and try to see if these idea can be improved on and not just shoot them down. That being said let's move forward.

So I think that either fleet boosts need to be moved from skill based to be fleet sized based or incorporate fleet size into the boost system. Either that or get rid of command ships and the associated boosts and make those boosts fleet sized based. The idea here would be that just being in fleet is a help to everyone else. It gets all players not only new players thinking more towards group dynamics and less towards solo game play. For mining boosts I've even had some ideas about ways that we could work this in with yield to create a more interesting and more group focused dynamic but I'll not divert down that path here.

Burner missions I think were a good idea but I was thinking that they should be something more group focused. As they are now you can solo them with an expensive fit T2 or faction frig if you are nearly all level 5 skills. However if you want 2 people to do them both ships need to be expensive fit T2 or faction frigs with high skills. There might be a way to do these with cheap ships with 5 or more people but at lower group sizes they don't seem to scale. I'd love to use those as an excuse to get new players feeling useful in fleet. Burners are frigs only so it's something that they can fly and if they could help me do content that I either can not do alone or would be very difficult to do alone that would be great.

Also for the health of the game in general but also to help new players if we could just start thinking of new game mechanics for PvE mostly (since PvP is already a "the more the merrier" situation) that incorporate group play. For example I can bring new players with me into level 4 missions or running higher level anoms in null or what ever we do for isk but I really just wind up splitting the bounties with them. From an isk stand point it's mostly me doing it just to have friends with but it would be nice if soloable content were somehow more beneficial to do in groups.

This new system is begging for a ISIS style skills and career visualizations to complement it.

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For bug hunting purposes please plan to reset any opportunities you make any changes to even text. So we know which have had changes to them or where added.