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EVE is a vast universe and New Eden is incredible rich but also it could be a bit overwhelming at the beginning when you do not know anything at all of what is going on.

An important first step into this great universe (which you, the players, shape to a large degree) are the tutorials and the New Player Experience as whole. We like to encourage people to explore the wonders of this universe and to show people the joy of (exploding) internet spaceships - and the tutorials are a way to teach some essential basics. To give new players an even better entrance and overview of New Eden a fearless team began to see how the first contact and the tutorials can be improved.

Read CCP Greyscale's devblog here, learn more about the upcoming tutorial revisions and see how we will improve the new player experience in a first step.

We welcome your feedback, please use this thread for it.

second player

looks good, is there any chance of seeing that bungee effect out of the tutorials?
seems like it would be a good start to new "in space" UI's

New Player Experience : Rookie System Incursion Style Social Interaction

I was looking through your new tutorial on SISI for some curiosity to see what you've done.

I think you've done a great job laying the explanations out in a way that is easy for everyone to understand!


So, as I was doing this, I quickly realized that it was lacking that one thing that I know CCP really wants to bring into the situation... social interaction and player dependency.

And then it occured to me... you should have a "mini-incursion" (not necessarily Sansha) style event going on in Rookie systems. It can be optional or part of one of the missions you make. Make it a 3-5 Rookie Ship experience.

The issue is relying on enough rookies in the system to make sure you have enough people to do it together (and to stop too much interference from veteran players). So maybe only allow Rookie Ships into the sites.

The danger factor should be very low, but combined with your tutorial and the necessity for working together, it will create a really cool experience for new players.

I figure the simplest explanation would be to create sites called Drone Training Facilities? Or just have a spattering of different kinds of sites that give a little bit of story from all over EVE. Have some faction pirates from the various factions, have some empire stuff (careful with doing Minmatar attacks in 1.0 Amarr space though, always found that cheesy). For Amarrians, maybe you have to transport some slaves to a facility and get ambushed with a slave rebellion Minmatar event. Or a variety of things that are co-op based. Also, leave room for some griefing so players get used to the idea that not ALL players are "co-operative".

Anyways, I think this is a cool idea and would be awesome for a new player to have an opportunity to do this.

Most important thing ::

We now explicitly teach the Overview, Selected Item and brackets.


:)

Thanks

Tooltip picture in the blog shows falloff above optimal. Wouldn't it make more sense to show it the other way around or are you trying to brainwash new players to think like a Minmatar?

First page? Kudos to CCP for making that cliff just a bit less steep. I distinctly remember *finding* stuff to be quite difficult when I was a true noob.

at any point do you show them the chat channels, or point out local chat, or aim them at any social channel to get them involved with the existing player base?

this has to be in there or you're teaching them how to play a single player game that happens to be a mmo.

get them talking to each other in local, or to the locals in the area as they run around doing the tutorials, open their eyes.

Awesome changes, definitely addressed a lot of issues I had when I started. Luckily I had a friend who helped guide me through the process.

The community is a helpful bunch, it might be useful to implement a queue where players could join or leave. Allow the new users to request help from a community member and just open a chat with the next person in queue. Have a little dialog that asks if the player was helpful, if there question was answered, and if they want to seek aid from another user. Obviously those undermining this system should be warned or banned from using it. Maybe have a code of ethics, no soliciting/cursing and warn the new players about this.

I like helping people but it's not always easy to get in touch with them, let me help you help others!

Anyway, I really liked



Glad you're making progress with the UI WHILE revamping tutorials. Good show!

And...


If this means what I think it does...oh baby!

Thanks guys, keep up the good work.

yes, we added that :)