EVE New Citizens Q&A

Most civilian 'garbage' can be reprocessed and will yield atleast a handfull of some of the more expensive minerals needed to build stuff. I personally think civilian stuff is ok even if it would be better for a new player to get T1 stuff right away.

Opportunities could work if the first one pointed you to the career agents ... the rest will be completed while doing career agent missions.

Career agents should be added to the opportunities map.

I cannot see an argument against this, can anyone come up with one?

I can see an argument for not leading players directly to career agents - thereby having them reach out to the community for help.

It is my perception that the function of the opportunities map is to show players what is out there, however participating in rookie chat has shown me how unpopular they are and that players on the whole do not know about career agents which is very important in teaching basics about the game in the beginning.

Apparently it takes you to them once you finish everything on the opportunities map, but honestly I do not think new players have the resources or knowledge to visit a wormhole before they do career agents.

Opportunities despite being the only thing the game puts forward as anything resembling a tutorial completely fail. If I hadn't researched about the game a bit before hand I would have already dropped the game with no intent to come back. My very first criticism is when displaying an icon make it match the actual icon and on top of that clearly state how to find it. In the opportunity "Engines of Creation" the Reprocess Ore step has an icon which if you go by all the previous examples your supposed to find and click on. No where does it tell you to be docked at the station and the icon is actually just the recycle symbol and called "Reprocessing Plant". It took me over 15 minutes (I kept track) to find the correct button and then get what I needed to fulfill it. Next step it wants you to get a blueprint. Good luck with that after following the previous opportunities and now probably being broke.

My next problem is that while there are apparently other resource to help (tutorial videos and career agents apparently, just learned of them reading this thread) in the about 2 hours of play I heard hide nor hair of them. Also don't fob this off as being a multiplayer game so I should have asked. When I asked about the previous problem the new player help was moving too quick and no one answer me there and in local no one was talking at all. If there are helpful things but people can't find them they aren't actually helpful.

Really in the end there was more but I just want a tutorial to play the game. We don't have game manuals anymore as more and more has been offloaded into the game itself. You can't try and take a step back when you already had it all in game. I just want to have the old tutorial as compared to opportunities I have only heard good things about its ability to teach me what I need to know.

I actually liked the opportunities. They are a bit snippy at times but I went through them fairly quickly - sometimes they required a second read and a bit of looking around.

The tutorial career agents were great but the transition after finishing the base 5 of them could be explained better.

Sisters of EVE plot, which I consider to be a tutorial too, since every new player is told to do it, could use more interesting rewards. Not necessarily a battlecruiser but it's a bit offputting to get only ISKs.

I'm a returning player after three years and even back then I wasn't that well ingrained. I consider myself a rookie as, after all this time, I know nothing.

With that said, I can say the new Opportunities system completely fails as a useful newbie tutorial as I was still completely lost. All my help came from just chatting with other players in local or the help channel.

New player here: Friendly GM Tegrino linked the thread, so I might as well write down a small thing I noticed.


Mission 1 of the exploration branch tells me to use/activate/show the "sensor overlay" but that is in fact always active. It shows you colors in different directions but that doesn't help me in finding a site. It doesn't tell you that you need to click on "Scanners" --> "Probe Scanner".

I guess those instructions refer to an older version of the game when the sensor overlay was different?

Later on, I don't think the game ever tells you how to specify a scanning area to reach 100% signal strength. I was only told in the help channel that I need to hold "alt" to see the arrows which I can then move.


Apart from that I had a problem in the business branch with a scripted enemy attacking me. When I wanted to defend myself against the Blood Raider, a message popped up telling me that it's a peaceful entity and that it would be bad if I attacked him. I tried again but the same happened. After around two minutes of him attacking me, I could counter-attack without that message interfering. It was probably some weird lag, just wanted to mention it.

The first exploration agent is useless if it counts as a tutorial.
It only consists of a few missions telling you to fly here and there in a starting system so you know what sites look like but it doesn't actually show you how scanning works or how to interact with probes. It took almost 2 hours to complete the last mission where it actually tasks you with scanning a site because I had no clue how probes worked or how to move them.
It didn't even mention the alt shift or control drags to change scan radius or grouping distance. I couldn't figure out to move them even and when I figured out how I had inadvertently moved them probably 100s of aus below the system I was in and had to drag them back
It needs to include a break down of basic probe control and how to general find stuff. I've proved a few times and it takes 15-20 tries to narrow it down and get it.
During the tutorial once I got it right to I managed to get the signal to 100% so I recalled my probes and tried warping to it and had to start over because it went back to 0 when I relaunched and scanned.

Also not sure how direction scan works. I see filter options and distance settings but nothing told me what it was and I keep seeing it referenced and people say they use it constantly and I haven't needed it once yet.