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I can't shake the feeling that, although the proposed new NPE sounds like fun, we all got here without it. And we are the ones who've shaped EVE, using the tools handed to us by CCP. Ok, we don't all get along (gank v. anti-gank, etc.), but we more than anything else sculpt the vibrant culture of EVE and give it its special character (for good or ill...).

Perhaps there are no longer enough of us to swell that bottom line, but it remains true that after a bit of questing and other high-jinks, your genuinely new players will meet the hard rock-face that is the real EVE Online. As usual, the persistent ones will stay and the rest will leave, F2P or not.

I wish I could be more positive. I know you have further improvements in the pipeline, and I look forward to seeing what those are.

Reeeeally looking forward to this NPE

Oh... and off grid links removed!!!

CCP are really heading in the right direction, keep it up!

More Aura voice is excellent. There's the joke "EVE has sound?" but that's a convention that needs to be slain. When game players sit in silence in front of their computer, they're probably looking for some kind of stimulation. So audio is good -when- it serves as feedback for player actions. You know, the stimulation payout (or reward) for taking an action.

I'm saddened by the lack of commitment to a British Aura, but I'm okay with this too.

Any chance you could animate Aura's avatar and then maybe have her tell me to do a barrel roll (also add barrel rolls tia)

of all the choices you could have made (like using a guide other than aura) CCP decides to kick any nostalgia vets had in the guts and kill the iconic voice of eve

ummm. took the cool sounding resonant aura voice and made it ....flat and uninteresting?


seems like an odd choice...downgrading something that has no problems?

Wanted to try the NPE on the test server.... but auras new voice was so bad I spent all my available time looking for the mute button.

luckily there is a audio slider to turn her off..

ccp again messing with stuff that wasnt broke....



edit... there is still time dear ccp devs... fire up the audio editing suite and transform new aura back into the old hard science fiction aura that fits in with the eve universe.

I imagine there's nothing you can do about the fact that you had to change Aura's voice. The underlying voice acting is fine, but some of the audio effects make her voice unappealing. She speaks a little quickly and tersely for my tastes.

Welcome to New Eden, step two: camera rotation do not work without mouse - if you are using touchpad you are grounded.

So, quick question;
Is the new Aura meant to just stop doing anything after - Hold left mouse button and move to rotate view?

Oh and just a little thing - When you "Orbit" something, you are generally moving (orbit, go around) - "To orbit the view", just does not make sense and will make less sense/confuse newblood. Try - to "view" what is around your ship - Simple and precise wording.
Grammar is very important in any sort of tutorial, if the grammar is not correct the tutorial becomes nothing but confusing words.
CCP, you really need to employ someone who has better than "math 101" as a basis for the English language.
( I understand for many Devs, English is a second language, so don't be offended when I say - DON'T WRITE TUTORIALS if you don't have a stronger than usual command of the language you are writing for)


When the Tutorial first fires up, it starts out with - you having just been destroyed by Drifters (or something) so I am giving you blah blah blah- Might this not lead NEW players who don't yet know what a Drifter is, to believe they have missed part of the tutorial somehow?



20 minutes now, Aura is still telling me to "orbit" the view "around" my ship with the mouse (but not moving). No next button? IS Aura broken? Or is this meant to be this way?
I've tried rotating to view the inside of the station (still boring), I even undocked and "orbited" the view by rotating my mouse (oh that wording just bites) which isn't mentioned in the tutorial but neither will get Aura to move on with the tutorial.

made a new mtar toon for the npe.

10 minutes in I broke it. I killed the first sleeper ship, and the second one spawned in right after. I had to kill it quick, as I let the first one do a bit of damage to see if Aura would ***** at me.

after I killed the second one, aura told me to click approach on the second sleeper.. (but its already dead) so... stuck.


I also made a Gal char and just self destructed my ship and pod in the beginning. Seems to have totally broke the npe. No way to continue tutorial.

maybe I'm just having bad luck?

Also, the default overview seems to not have sleepers or warp interdiction generators on it.
(maybe an old custom overview was loading instead of default?)

Is it really a good idea to represent drifters as noob friendly content? I myself wont even bother shooting at a drifter. too risky for my blood.

I can see new bros being blapped by the first real drifter they come across.. (I see drifters as end game content)