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I totally see your the point, but in practical terms I don't think it's an issue in this case as it's only one mission, you're not going to run into the regen balance-point unless you're *really* slow at killing them, and we've not yet explained how shield regen works so it shouldn't be obvious to new players that eventually they'll reach a point where they're not taking any more damage. In 99% of cases players are going to see their shield going down, realize that they're in danger and kill the enemies really quickly, and in the other 1%, they really do need their hands held



I'll pass this suggestion on



We left tracking off because we wanted to keep it simple, and because actually using that number is sufficiently advanced behavior that you probably know your tracking value already.

Or, put another way, it's (IME) rare that you're in the middle of a fight and think "oh crap, what's my tracking in radians/s?"



The system name itself can be right-clicked. I didn't screenshot that because I had devhax on at the time :/



Yup, and this pollutes our data somewhat, but in a way that should be consistent and relatively non-critical. If we hugely improve some bits of the tutorial and we see no impact on quit rates, then we can probably pin that on mechanics and start looking at those. For a first pass, though, we had plenty of pretty major issues in the tutorial themselves that could easily be fixed for the low-hanging fruit trial accounts who actually want to play the game as-is but can't understand it, so we focused on those.



The thing with tooltips is as soon as you move the mouse off the module, the tooltip goes away :P

If we could get text-to-speech working well, I can't imagine that we wouldn't at least try to implement it universally.

Why not just use her for emphasis/flavor for the tutorial, rather than a verbatim reading of the tutorial text?

She IS Aura. No text-to-speech calling me a clumsy pilot would have the same effect.

Lovely update even for the people who arent new to the game.

Keep rinsing and repeating hopefully well get the perfect tutorial.

Few years ago as a newbie one of the hardest things to understand was how weapon range + tracking works in Eve. At first I thought Falloff included Optimal, I had no clue that falloff meant also reduced hit chance or what signature resolution and radius stats in ships meant etc. After some months of playing someone nice enough showed me this: Eve tracking. After seeing this, it all became clear to me and combat became a lot easier for me. I hope the new tutorials show something like in the above link.

Secondly, in the devblog there's the weapon tooltip. It's nice and dandy but could the tooltip also display the maximum range of weapon (optimal + 2x Falloff) and mention on Falloff range line that the weapon has reduced hit chance at this range?

Then there's the "monsters" called trackingspeed / accuracy in weapon stats and ship's transversal speed that affects hitting the target - it's probably not related to these tutorials but in future revisions of fitting screen, could some dev f.ex add a new info to fitting screen that gives the following info for weapons: Tracks target at optimal range with transversal speed less than "calculated speed value here". I think something like this would help a lot of players to understand what those rad/s and transversal speeds mean.

It kinda gives new players an overly soft intro to what is billed as a "hard game" - up the difficulty. Most people who get to the point where they are actually in the tutorial are there fully expecting cold and unforgiving.

Like others I'm kinda suprised by the choice of - and + as the stop/fullspeed buttons.
The most intuitive symbols would be the diode symbols: |< speed >|

Visually they're also separated from the speed bar and appear to be part of /apply to the background widget rather than speed bar.
To fix this they could be given the same background grey as the speedbar but separated by a thin bit to emphasize they're buttons. The Full speed button could pulse blue if the ship is accelerating towards full and stay solid blue when the ship is at full speed.

I made a mockup of how it would look while the ship is stopped.
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/424/09newhud.png

Its only more important for a weapon type that is mostly used in falloff. If I'm in a Rail or Laser ship in falloff it means I'm doing it wrong!

Anyway its a trivial matter either way as the new info is a huge improvement on what we have now.

The stop square is a good idea, but in many other contexts multiple arrows imply warp.
Notably in the selected item window where ->> is warp to the selected object.

Maybe the - needs to be red so it indicates stop as well?