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Great job on the Navigation voice Aura, "Docking request accepted" is good now. Do the same with "Docking permission requested" please.

I sincerely hope that the NPE that is on SISI is the inferior first generation of the well polished experience that will be deployed on TQ on the 15th. If it is not, I would strongly recommend that every player going through this crap be very careful to let your abusive and overacted FC complete their dialogue and Aura to complete all of hers and remember that while there are umpteen ways to "approach" something, when she wants you to approach, and she needs you to do it to clear the objective - you need to use the right-click menu or she won't know that you approached.

Also, when they give you the mini-injector and the new frigate. Thank them kindly and let them go deal with the hive. Otherwise, you are doomed to fight that hive, win, and get podded until the end of time - the objective is not reached because it does not let you get your pod out. Even when you click all the x's to make the stupid FC and Aura not blather endlessly, and you set destination, and turn on auto-pilot, you don't move and you get podded, and then you get to go back and destroy the capital ship and the hive and die all over again and again and again.

If this is not the inferior first generation - I pray CCP pulls the plug now.

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.

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 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.

Overall enjoyed the NPE intro scenarios- nicely done. A few (hopefully) useful comments:

Agree with previous criticism that Drifters' actual in-game capability will vary considerably from that experienced in the NPE. This I know for true.

Aura insists on using auto-pilot to navigate from system to system. My corpmates at UoC assure me this is a very bad idea, and may result in getting killed.

Aura also recommends stopping one's ship after every engagement/action. Again, the helpful students at UoC recommend always moving since inertia takes time to overcome, and such delays may result in death.

If a player does something before being told to do so, it seems to throw the NPE off track. I looted a wreck containing a survivor before Aura instructed me to, and the scenario would not move forward since it seemed to be waiting for me.

As a final note, experienced players wishing to try the NPE should do so in a clone without any implants! A veteran Grad Student from UoC found out the hard way that each participant in the NPE gets podded in the end, an experience costing more ISK than I imagined were possible to implant into a clone's head.

I'm really impressed with the new tutorial, with a few reservations.

As others have mentioned it is very possible to get stuck by completing tasks in the wrong order. Although it is easy to reset the tutorial, based on my time in Rookie Help it's not obvious to a new player how to do that or how to reach the new mission site afterwards.

Also, please stop teaching people to autopilot.

Overall though, good job :)