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When i finished all the Opportunities that are available on Sisi atm it directed me to the career agents.

Starmap: i cant seem to zoom in far enough to see the moons (for scanning or warp-direction-bounces).

Why? Seriously, what would be the reasoning here?

Oh ok. Thank you.

I fully support the new system. I still favor some kind of reward for completing achievements, though.

Opportunities seems to be a great possibility for increasing new player experience. I think it has also potential for adding a little bit more pve content, next to lvl 4 missions, incursions etc.

I would like to see some grades of increased difficulty. May be like associate, professional and expert, while associate would be the absolut begining experience and expert would be something you can do only in a high skilled group of people.
While associate would lead new players only through highsec, the professional would lead them to low sec, null sec and wormhole.

Another comment I would like to make is that, after Declining the initial offer to do the Opportunities I could not find a link to the Opportunities map in neither Neocomm, nor the character sheet; I could also not find an option to reset the tutorial (in the hopes of getting the offer again)

(I finally managed to get the Opportunities map after completing one at random and double clicking that notification)

This native English speaker approves of your reordering.

You might as well start each race off with a fit combat ship. A very basic ship, with very basic fits. Adjust the rookie ships slot layout as below.

The gallente noob ship, give it 2 training blasters, give it training ammo (can only be used in training blasters, about 2000 rounds), fit the mediums with a training afterburner and a training sensor dampener (extremely low effectiveness).
Fit the low with a training magnetic stabilizer and small training armor repairer.
The training blasters can also use t1 ammo. The training ammo cannot be put into any other weapon besides the training blaster.

The caldari noob ship should have two training rockets, training rocket ammo (2000 rounds)
It should have an afterburner, training shield booster, and a training multi spectrum ecm.
The low should have a training rocket ballistic system.

The minmatar noob ship should have two training auto cannons, with training rounds (2000).
It should have a training afterburner, a training target painter and a shield booster
The low should have a training gyrostabilizer.

The amarr noob ship should have 2 training pulse lasers, with two training crystals
The mods should have a afterburner, a training tracking disruptor
The lows should have a heat sink, a training armor repairer.

The ships should come with a training drone (gallente 2), of their races type.

What this does is introduce the new player into a viable noob ship, showing he basics of that races abilities, and introducing ewar from the get go. It also provides (on death), all players with a functional noob ship.

Set these people up from minute 0 with something that is fully functional and looks cool. In addition it gives them an idea of what the heck their actual ship fit should look like, so they are just a little less lost.

Mission rewards should give the players a ship, and a recommended fit. Yes recommend a fit for their ships they get. Recommend two options, a training fit and a player built fit (stop people from gouging newbies from day 1). You only need to hold their hand for a few hours until hey become less overwhelmed. People replicate what they see, and if you shownthem what it could look like, they can expand on it.

You may just want to keep them in that rookie ship till they are comfy. Sometimes immediately throwing a new ship at them when they have no clue what a fit is.. Dunno.

The first 5 minutes. An intro to eve online

Let's simplify the introduction to eve. Start them in a blank system with nobody there. Teach them how to move around with the keys (WASD, these should be already pre mapped by default in all new installations, fix this) and the overview (hide everything else, the left bar, capacitor, fittings, chat, hide it all). Once they have succeeded in moving, introduce them to right click menu. Make them do three types of warps. Make them jump a gate (move systems). Have them warp to a coordinate on the overview, then Have a Titan of the race of the pilot cyno in, introduce the Titan and tell them this is the largest ship, that players and corporations own these and costs hundreds of billions, and some other fluff about interaction, butteryfly effects, etc. do a visual walk around of the Titan so they see it and remember it. If you want, have a super or something else there looking pretty. this should be in text and voice acted. Then tell the player to approach the Titan manually or by the overview, let the player right click on the Titan and take a Titan bridge (hide all other rightclick menus at this time). Have the Titan do a countdown (it's fake but that's fine). After that, once in the new system, introduce them to the probe system (so they know there is more crap than what is just on overview), show them a green anomaly and have them warp to it. It is a wormhole. Introduce them to right clicking the wormhole, showing how to read the text so they know wtf it is (this introduces them to Show Info). They've now seen a gate, seen a Titan, and seen a wormhole. They jump the wormhole. The wormhole spits them out in their designated rookie system.

There goes your newbie island. No need for combat, crazy long explanations (comes later) or some gigantic mess of hundreds of UI buttons. It's their newbie ship, the overview (everything else including local, in game chat rooms, etc is hidden), and three objectives. Move around, warp to stuff, make three jumps (gate, Titan bridge, wormhole). They see something cool, they learn to move, they get comfortable with the core element of eve (the overview), and they are not overwhelmed. It teaches them the CORE of interacting with eve, which is movement, overview, exploration, rightclick, show info, what is a bridge, what is a gate, what is a wormhole. They now have the ability to learn.

You don't need massive detail, you need to remove 90% of eve's UI for the first 5 minutes so they can get comfy with it. You can expand on that if needed, but ultimately the first 5 minutes should be, move your ship, see something huge and cool, jump and see the three major jump effects, and rightclick stuff.

That's the intro.

After that, introduce the capacitor bar, other menus, etc. go Over the buttons (you can because you have a fit ship). After that aura does a decent job. Basically mission 1 from here on out.

With all of that, realize that All the vets of eve experience the new player experience each time they die and wind up in that hunk of poorly fit rookie ship with the single titanium. Upgrade the ship to reflect their race at least with basic noob functionality.

I had a chance to check this out on SiSi and I like where it's going. A few points I'd like to reiterate (mine and others):

• There needs to be some sort of reward/incentive. Carrots are good (SP is even better for new pilots).
• While I realize this is the 'initial' release, some foresight should be given now into organizing this into more categories, ie: Basics, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert, etc.
• There also needs to be some kind of Daily|Weekly|Monthly reward system (again, SP) tired into both PvE and PvP activities. Trading, industry, exploration, mining, combat, etc. Not only would this greatly enhance PvE (which is sorely lacking at present), but it would encourage players to actually undock and entail some risk.

Some examples for daily 'Opportunities' could include things like:
• Sneak into a low-sec system without being detected (locked)
• Extract yourself from or dodge a low-sec gate camp trap
• Bump a miner or steal from a miner
• Steal some mission loot or interfere with another mission (NPC triggers)
• Gain % corporation or faction standing
• Come to the aid of another player under attack (NPC or player)

Again, I can't really emphasize enough of having SP for a reward. You can make (or buy) ISK, but training into new skills is the biggest hurdle and challenge in retaining new players.

I think to truly improve the new player experience you need to show all the ways a new person can earn isk.

At the end of the day when you dump them in the sandbox and say "good luck".. the first thing they'll think is "i need money". MMO's have taught us that their are two ways to earn money.. "questing" and "farming".. how do those activities translate to EVE?? Missions and mining.. the two most boring and least compelling features of your game. (which by the way is something that does deserve some time.. as they could be far more interesting and dynamic than they are currently are)

Not just "distribution", "combat", "mining". Explain faction warfare and what is needed to get started and to actually make money from that activity. What are incursions, is that something that you can do on day1? So future planning will be involved, what will that entail?