EVE New Citizens Q&A

I see no such thing here, only a somewhat vague yet strangely thrilling "opportunities" guide. Did I miss the show?

When I started in Eve 7+ years ago.

Aura Tutorial - New pilots started the game in space in their capsule while in contact with an ethereal agent called 'Aura'. She provided a few missions for the new pilot to complete in the Rookie Ship. The tutorials concluded when Aura sent you to speak with a Tutorial Agent (no longer active) that offered a 2-part mission called 'The Endless Battle' (link in forum signature).

The wrongly named 'Tutorial Agent' then sent you to 1 of 3 different Career Agents. Later the Career Agent missions were changed and 2 more Career Agents were added.

Then the 'Aura Tutorial' was changed to showcase the Captain Quarters where new players first started the game in station learning how to move their character, inject and train skills, work the market, etc before being sent out to do some missions in the Rookie Ship. The tutorials concluded when Aura sent you to speak with 1 of 5 different Career Agents.

Now CCP seems to think the 'Opportunities' system is better than the Aura Tutorial. I think they're wrong and should have spent their time improving the Aura Tutorial with more info about the game itself. They also could have re-worked, expanded and improved the Career Agent missions at the same time.


DMC

Odd that CCP wold go the route of "less instruction" as steep as the learning curve is for this. Still, there's a lot to say for figuring things out on one's own. Makes the reward a bit sweeter perhaps?

I must admit as a new player; the opportunities is hella confusing. I followed best I could and found myself more stuck and asking for more help. I wanted to finish them all before doing the 5 career agents but all people would say is "do the career agents and the opportunity will complete itself"

I'm currently doing my 4th career agent and have learnt a lot more. The game should open with these and the opportunities as a side part or covering different things.

I must say so; the business career agent was shocking. I was expecting to be taught about the market and buy/sell orders yet Nothing. Hopefully joining the E-uni will help with that venture

Is the Sisters Of Eve mission arc still available? Heard once upon a time it was a good way to get experience (and ISK, and goodies) but was it part of the original Aura Tutorial?

Excellent. I'm finding that after doing the cursory starter opportunities, jumping into the agent missions is helping to expand my knowledge base... so far so good!

Also love the landmarks thing, inspires continuous exploration into the vast unknown... so much awesome lore to absorb...

Info on the SOE Epic Arc: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/The_Blood-Stained_Stars

A few of the missions are challenging for a new player but it is excellent experience.

SOE Epic Arc is pretty good, you get a variety of missions and targets to kill, and it has exaggerated rewards compared to normal agent missions. Search for an agent named Sister Alitura in Arnon, and go talk to her. Most of the Arc is designed for newbie-level ships: frigates or destroyers, with support skills trained to 2-3 or so. Some of the end bosses can be a bit more difficult as they use jamming and electronic warfare, but there are a lot of veterans in Arnon willing to help with the combat.

Aura was a voice-acted "tutorial" where CCP found someone with a nice voice and gave her some synth/computer overtones, and had her read out the tutorial text to us and act as the ship computer voice too. I guess the actress was no longer available in the last few years, so eventually CCP phased the whole voice tutorial out.

Even I still do it every now and then on a 7 year old char. It's a nice diversion and even fun (considering it only happens every 3 months), flying an Interceptor or a T1 Frigate. It also helps keeping faction standings up. (Locators, Locators everywhere!)