EVE New Citizens Q&A

The new "New Player Experience" tutorial is a huge improvement from the old one. I really enjoyed it. A couple of suggestions and these might be spoilers so if you haven't experienced the new NPE don't read any further.

First, when you acquire the faction frigate (Rifter in my case as Minmatar) I would have a brief part of the tutorial have the pilot insure it.

Second, after the end of the tutorial it's a bit harsh to receive just a BPC of said ship to replace what you've lost. Now the new pilot is faced with either mining the minerals to make a new one out of the BPC or buying a new one off of the market. Because I didn't insure my ship I received the default insurance amount which was not enough to replace even the hull.

Other than those two nitpicks it was an awesome experience and my hats off to the devs and everyone involved in the remake.

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I used to play a few years ago, only briefly- I was busy with IRL stuff to really commit.

Now that I've gotten back, I've played for the last week and the decision to ditch the old Aura for a flat-toned, quickly pronouncing alternative is complete rubbish. Even worse is that in a game with as much utility as literally exporting market data into excel and customizing so many facets of a ship that simply swapping .mp3 files as per the users preference is too much?

I can't stand the new voice and it's annoying as hell. When mentioning it in the Rookie Help for solutions to replace the old sounds, I was told my ISD Gwedif to post here, I don't see any instructions whatsoever for Aura VO feedback in this channel, but once I mentioned that in Rookie help I was "warned"

Exhilarating.

I was sent here by ISD in game to post the feedback here.

I was also "warned" in the way that Joseph Nobel was.

Fair enough. I'm not a big fan of the new Aura voice either but one of the CCP devs in help chat this morning said that the old Aura was replaced and there was no going back.

After listening to those sound bites the old Aura is simply superior. I believe I'm just going to turn off the new one.

Here is the "official" forum page for general feedback, I wasn't told to go to that page, but none the less, tons of paying subscribers (or PLEX users, still contributing to the commerce) asking for the previous voice.

It's crazy that the new voice under general feedback received no compliments, none!

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=499790&p=9

Complete Newbie here - found it a bit odd that the tutorial didn't mention important elements like weapons reach and the relation between fitting and capacitor usage. As someone mentioned above, insurance should also be covered.

Also the sites were a bit too big in my opinion. Takes minutes to get to the next step. Maybe you should throw in more rats (especially at the Sisters of Eve location).

It woulld be very useful to know how to restart the tutorial if it gets into a "bugged state". This did happen to me and I am either miussing something or they does not seem to be a way to start Aura/tutorial again once it is dismissed.

Also I am very much a fan of the old Aura voice, the new one is harsh and far from immersive. The old voice is Eve the new one not.

@Carl : As I told before, I am new to the game and thus I can't compare to the previous version of the tutorial. But what I can tell is that the apparent lack of information serves a greater purpose in my opinion, which is that you have to look around, you have to discover, open tabs, fetch the information that you need or want. But most of all you have to observe.

While a was harvesting my first veldspar and plagioclase for instance, I noticed that other players used two drills (makes sense), others combined with drones. I clicked Show info and, doing so on an on, I managed to find all by myself how to get drones, compared things in market such as blueprints vs items directly, etc. etc. I now know what will be my next ship using the ressources available ingame. I figured how to sell what I mine at the price I want considering jumps, other player offers, ressource availability, buying stacks and reselling at a higher price, selling in multiple stacks, etc. etc.

I mean, I am new, but I think the real way to learn is to observe and to be curious. IMO, the actual tutorial is just fine : fast and sweet, and the rest is just fun discovery. And I bet one of the main purposes of such a minimalized tutorial is to filter players. You have to invest time to get it, so it's even better for me. So much online games out there are too accessible to anybody.

So....when if this getting finished?

Wish I was joking.

1) No information or advice about weapon ranges.

2) No information or advice about the difference between shield, armour and hull repair modules or when best to use them.

3) Voice acted sections being fired at you on auto-play with no pause between them to let you absorb what the last person just told you, and no means to play back any of them.

4) Docking or any other session change skips whatever voice acting section is currently playing, meaning you miss out on being told what to do next.

5) Leaving the industry window open whilst making the civ data analyser breaks the tutorial; fitting the module then bumps it forward a couple of steps and lets you continue. Breaking the NPE is also possible by killing NPC before being told to do so or doing pretty much anything before being told to do it.

6) Skill queue only very briefly touched on and the mini injector barely used at all. Please make Aura suggest other skills to add to the queue and use more of the injector.

7) No fitting advice given at all, no mention of PG, CPU, rig calibration, slot limits, turret hardpoints, missile hardpoints, drone bays, weapons needing ammo, NOTHING.

8) Getting the player to web the Force Auxilliary "to slow it down" Really?! Same player then taking down said capital ship with civilian weapons?! REALLY?!

9) Laughable voice acting from the npc fleet members, all meshing together, very difficult to make out with the amount of "radio static" effect and using the same face for all of the speakers.

10) Capacitor is only casually mentioned in passing (during the afterburner explanation), the importance of it totally ignored.

11) No intro video to introduce players to the backstory of the factions, the drifters, capsuleers, cloning etc.

12) After being given a new frigate and thee guns, Aura constantly telling the player to "activate your primary weapon" and the pointer only pointing at the F1 slot may end up with players only firing one bloody weapon.

13) Distances in the NPE are vast and very boring to travel through, even with the afterburner on.

14) Hacking is not explained very well and the firewall icon should be displayed next to the core icon in Aura's description panel so that players know what it looks like before they stumble upon it.

15) The fleet forward base is a mess of little square LCO brackets instead of an impressive array of ships to drool over.

16) Every race being given a Tristan skin.


Yes, the NPE is a million times better then it was but it's still terribly shoddy.