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When new players join the wonderful world of EVE Online for the first time, they might get overwhelmed with information and might feel a bit lost or even confused. While there has been already good progress better informing new players about the rich and exciting possibilities and game play in EVE (lots is comfortably accessible to new players just hours or a few days after they started playing!), it is time to ramp up the New Player Experience!

A new system that gradually will replace the current tutorials is under development and first results are already available: behold the new Opportunities system.

Opportunities will offer new players the chance to explore EVE on their own pace in a non-linear fashion and with as little spoon-feeding as possible - new players are encouraged and supported by the Opportunities system to become active on their own early on.

Read more about this new system, when it becomes available and how it will be introduced in CCP Rise' new dev blog Opportunities Abound - The New Player Experience.

Looking good!

Why not make opportunities give a small, almost negligible, amount of assignable SP? Maybe an hour or two of training at base rates, with the intent of ensuring that it totals under 48h total?

Whilst SP traditionally comes from time only, the most frequent concern I hear from new players is that they don't have the skills for this or that, and that it takes time away from their training to pick up the basic required skills. Giving a nominal amount of SP as a reward for exploring the game would both provide them with a reimbursement for the new aspects that they're encouraged to try alongside allowing them to feel less of the "week one" training fatigue.

Better still, offering 250k SP (or whatever) is a huge advantage to a new player with only 600k SP but is measurably less useful to current players with 60-100m+ SP. It wouldn't even be a tenth of most skills in my skillqueue at the minute, but would probably be the entirety of most of my friends new player account skillqueues. Some kind of training booster (ala cerb accelerator) would work equally well I suppose, offering 30-60 minutes of advanced training via drugs...but would be more useful to older players who would immediately start trying to buy the booster in vast quantities.

You'd also have to tie rewards to the account I suppose, lest we all start using these rewards to generate gank alts in 250k SP training time less.

It's really sexy. I would love that kind of tutorial while I started the game 8 years ago :D

Very very good improvement to the game CCP people.

So from Feb. 20th the Rogue Cloning Facilities make sense \o/

I'm curious as to how new players will get along with this. That said, can anyone recommend a good brainwashing service? This way, I can fully experience the Opportunities system just like a real new player.

We are working on some future changes to bracket icons, which are visible on the internal test server where the screenshots were taken.

Rookie chat is going to be a bit confusing for a bit!

Wow I'm impressed. Seriously CCP, I'm impressed.

No rewards seems like an odd decision. At the very least, completing an opportunity should point you towards a way to make ISK at the end using the skills you have learned.

Why not have them give a module that will help the player do more of what they just learned to do? Finish the mining one, get an extra mining laser, market one and get a market skillbook, etc?

This idea has potential, I think. Perhaps it shouldn't come in the form of SP, but maybe something like skill vouchers, that can be consumed to instantly gain a rank in a skill? Like, you, as an Amarr Pilot, complete the "shoot a ship and loot it" opportunity, and among the rewards is a voucher for Small Energy Weapons 3?

With careful restrictions and restriction on scope, you could put in an additional carrot in this form.