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opinion about tutorial exploration missions

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Mando Thellere
The Great Magnet
#1 - 2015-01-28 01:32:32 UTC
hi guys

i dont know how you think about it but i'm of the opinion that i ran into a pretty annoying thing that just shouldnt happen in a tutorial mission since it's just gonna brainfuck players who are new to the game and have zero experience with it.

I was running the tutorial career missions for the third time to gain a quick faction standing increase. Int the exploration branch i was told to find a gas site, which is nothing unusual. The big problem here is that sites despawn from time to time and i had bad luck three times in a row: Whenever i found a gas site and was upping the percentage of signal strength to around 60% the site just despawned and i had to start all over again.

I have to admit i'm not a very patient person and i hate stuff like that but thats not the point. The important thing about this is that there are new players in the game who have no experience in scanning for sites at all. When they find a signal and try to increase its strength by narrowing the whitish probe bubbles and the signal just disappears afterwards they will be pretty confused. They made nothing wrong but are just not aware of the fact that the site just despawned.

Would I be a guy who tried this the first time i would have thought i made a mistake and that i dont understand this garbage. Why can't those tutorial sites just be permanent with respawning loot in the containers? That would eliminate the confusion caused by a despawning site.

I'd also like to mention that I did many site scans since i play eve and i always discovered what i was looking for. So it's not me just being too stupid
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2015-01-28 07:43:15 UTC  |  Edited by: DeMichael Crimson
Yeah, having just the loot respawn in the starter system exploration sites is more of a short term fix which really doesn't prepare the player for how exploration really works in all the other systems.

Course it would be helpful if CCP included a note in the Exploration Career missions explaining that sites despawning while probing could be due to the site being completed by another player.

Anyway, probably be a good idea to post your feedback about the Career missions in this thread - Tutorial Suggestions

Oh yeah, welcome to Eve. Hope you have a long and rewarding career here.



DMC
Mando Thellere
The Great Magnet
#3 - 2015-01-28 14:48:47 UTC
Thanks for the link demichael. didnt know about it. Gonna move this thread if i find out how :D
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2015-01-29 23:54:43 UTC
Thanks, there's no reason to move this thread. Just post your thoughts, praise and complaints in the thread I linked earlier. Also don't forget to post any possible solutions and or ideas to help make the Career missions better.


DMC