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This still holds true for Crius Test build 802998. Checked Minmatar and Gallente Career Agents.

Also:
The "Guns and Ammo" Tutorial (opens on accepting Cash Flow for Capsuleers 2/10) states "Most likely, the weapon you have been using so far requires no ammunition.". Not that likely anymore, as new players get their faction's turret weapon from the basic tutorial (Tutorial 11, during Aura's second Mission)

Some tiny thing:
During Making Mountains out of Molehills 1/10 (which requires player to hand in 1.000 units of veld on Sisi) an agent conversation window is opened while mining at the mission location.
That conversation still states 999 units to be brought to him. Should get changed to 1.000

np will do

The issue is knowing when you make changes, running the tutorials takes time and changes are hard to spot. It takes time to make a full run thru the tutorials as you know.


What was the fix for the first use of non starter system ore and where to find it?

Will make a new pass on the NPE tonight or over the weekend.

Telling the player where the information is ie Evelopedia or google it Is a important part of the mining / Industrial tutorial. Highlighing the Evelopedia search option in the help menu again at the point where the player needs to use it is just good training.

I highlighted the two evelopedia pages in the industry UI thread I though should be officlilized and then linked in the mining tutorial if that info did not get passed on to you ill find them again and link them in this thread.

I have also created a thread on this issue in the Features & Ideas subforum.

Further things of note. I'll keep this limited to the Basic Missions and Tutorials.
Created bug reports for each as well, with CCP RedDawn in the title:

Aura Tutorial # 04
While other steps in this tutorial highlight UI elements mentioned (Screenshot 1) there's
no Highlighting Panel for the "Agent Missions" Infopanel (Step 4 of 4 in that tutorial, Screeenshot 2)

Some new players actually have trouble finding this infopanel
Might be that such highlighting panels can't be added to infopanels. In that case, a Screenshot embedded into the tutorial should suffice

Aura Tutorial # 09
Step 3/3 states
A green checkmark indicates that the skill has been trained to the required level, a red X means that the skill has not yet been trained at all, and a yellow circle means that you have learned part of the skill but do not yet meet the required level. You want all marks to be green.

How about adding checkmark, cross and circle to that text?

Aura Tutorial # 14
Step 4/4 states
Each type of defensive module will only mend a specific layer - armor repairers won't repair shields, and shield boosters won't boost armor. Your shields will regenerate on their own over time, but armor and structure can only be repaired by activating the appropriate modules or using station repair facilities.

This is an opportunity to blow a strike against double/triple tanking. By adding another paragraph like:
It's usually more effective to only increase the defensive capabilities of one of these layers.
Later in the game, you will learn which layers are a good/common choice for specific ships and tasks.

Aura Tutorial # 18 (not sent using the bug report system)
Quite some players have issues finding the Academy office. Possibly because "the Academy" is often confused with a station. Especially players that chose Imperial Academy, State War Academy or Federal Navy Academy as their character's school might be confused here. This could lead to them docking at a station in the system the mission is located - even though Step 4/4 asks players to warp to a mission location.

Aura Tutorial #24
Step 2/3 states
You should now see a new window detailing the various courses on offer at this station. I encourage you to try these.

Just a slight change: I encourage you to try all of them

As a final note:
Like CCP Rise stated in his FF 2014 presentation about NPE, the Basic Tutorial is to be reblaced with a different approach to teach rookies soon™. Would it be possible to get some information on the current state of this?

On SISI the only skill requirement to use the Civilian Hobgoblin in the Weapon of Choice mission is Drones 1.

Great post about these issues at http://crossingzebras.com/heres-a-rubiks-cube/

My comments:

Great Points. A couple that you did not tackle directly.

The NPE does not have a function like Valkyrie will at launch (via audio prompts) which says you are missing a piece of information or doing something wrong. Do this to fix yourself, IE "Looks like you are missing a skill to make what you are doing easier, you are rich in this world go spend ISK on this skill book you are missing."

Saying you are on your own in text at the end of each of the career agent mission path looses its punch after you do one of them.

The lack of link from basic materials to build things to source can also
be talked about at the basic T1 level. The gathering of information to
find non Trit ore is far from clear.
Every step linking types of ore needed in the industrial UI, to the rocks you need to mine and then reprocess to obtain them, to where you can find the right rocks in the first place. Is more then one obvious link apart. Places that you would think would have this information like the Info panels just
talk their rarity. Even searching the Evelopedia wont find that information until you back out and look up mining in its totality. This issue is currently in work with CCP Reddawn the Dev working on the NPE.

The fact you cant figure out which skills effect "number of lockable
targets" from somewhere on the target management interface but have to
figure it out in the ISIS or checking each skill that is on the market
is just an other example.

The fact that damage dealt by each faction is standardized should be leveraged to help out new players not hidden so players are directed to Eve Survival at the first opportunity.

All solutions will require Dev resources:

When an industrial ISIS was brought up to the devs it was stated it would take a month only working on that just to generate the text. That's not including the time working on how to present the information in the first place.

An info sheet like http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6781003/EvE/Quick%20Reference%20Sheet%20by%20Korgan%20Nailo.pdf could be included in a new section in the help menu called player resources but that might be considered to much information until that information is included in a more game play friendly manner.

The current set of improvements are on Singularity I would suggest players interested in the NPE to download and run thru the current version so rough spots can be identified and fixed.

The new tool tips and new learning structure once they hit Sisi and then TQ will be a significant improvement once the current teething issues like delays are worked out but the long term fixes cannot come soon enough.

Salpun

edit fixed link. Info is old and will be older in Cruis

Fixed Thanks.

Thanks for the info.