Player Features and Ideas Discussion

All the skill points in the world won't help you if you can't figure out what to do for fun. A new player might hop in a Rifter and have a blast (failing) at PVP while an experienced player just grinds missions to PLEX every month.

I've always thought that EVE needs more story-driven, group-oriented, structured PVE content. The openness of the EVE universe can be disorienting to new players and it would help to have sets of missions (much like the SOE epic arc) which would follow them from frigates to battleships as well as provide meaningful story content, if that's your thing. Group PVE at the moment seems to be limited to incursions and some combat sites, because it just isn't profitable elsewhere - providing challenging but rewarding group missions could fix this issue.

The tutorial system could use a bit of a rework to include video tutorials, and the wiki isn't incredibly helpful or up-to-date (this is partly a community issue but the devs should work on it too).

Ultimately: a new player should be able to leave the tutorial/career missions, pick a career path for himself (at least to start), and have some clear direction as to how to get started in that field.

Group PvE as a concept is very risky. It is highly prone to being trivialized and farmed, just like Incursions are now. An easier version that people often claim should have better loot to encourage groups would just be abused.

Carebears.....they make up the general population of the game, they are mostly a voiceless mass, they don't generate the headlines that the big null sec alliances do nor to do they have a many noticeable personalities such the Mittani for the CFC or Grath Telkin for Pandemic Legion. But they do make most of the stuff that is shipped all the down there to null and seed some of the regions in Low sec.

The bear, a looked down upon creature s/he is still the one paying CCP's bills, and many of them could drag the rug from right under CCPs doing so while the rest of Eve laughs at them. Don't mock the silent mass, they are still by far and away the most powerful group in eve.

You know if your other two post about the same idea were locked and everyone in those threads said they were bad ideas.


Why do you think it would change this time? This a redundant thread as well, do you know how many times this has been requested? Also how broken it would be, the amount of suicide catties would be hilarious.

Well several million SP is NOT the answer, thats just a veiled attempt at "Shave off a month or two of training from my next alt" at least the way i see it it is.

That said there should be more indepth instructions on how certain activitys are performed, some more hands on tutorials, and Honestly i thinkk CCP should put MOTD's in starter corps that feature CCP sponsored corps such as RVB, EUNI, and such. as well as maybe a link to posts that describe certain activities very well or documents / spreadsheets that would be invaluable to newer players.

Theres my 2 cents

Are you insane?

Explode the newbie!
Don't be a **** about it.
That's about it.

Biggest problem for the newbies (depending on "school") is that the vets of N years perpetuate the partial truths (or outright lies) that effectively "force" people into playing the victims ...

Every single player trying EVE is different. There is no magic solution to keep them all. Searching for a peg that fit every single different new player's hole gives us what CCP already has, a tutorial that dosen't really tell you much. The game is probably too open ended to really be supported strongly by a tutorial tho...

This, so much this.

A 'cold hard truths' tutorial or the like as depicted at the bottom of this is sorely needed IMHO.

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