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Just lost my first ship. Absolutely enraged.
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Schminto
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#101 - 2014-02-10 23:45:19 UTC
I've only been playing about a week myself, i thought the tut's did a very good job of teaching you how the game works. I tried the game a few years ago, and quit about 30 mins into it. They have done quite a bit to teach you how the game works.

Today i found the beauty of wormholes, so far im down about 300m isk in blown up ships.. Don't fret that 2-3m isk you lost in a tut, it comes easy enough.
Miriya Zakalwe
World Wide Welp
#102 - 2014-02-11 00:32:58 UTC
Schminto wrote:
I've only been playing about a week myself, i thought the tut's did a very good job of teaching you how the game works. I tried the game a few years ago, and quit about 30 mins into it. They have done quite a bit to teach you how the game works.

Today i found the beauty of wormholes, so far im down about 300m isk in blown up ships.. Don't fret that 2-3m isk you lost in a tut, it comes easy enough.



You're a week in and you've already YOLO'd 300m ISK? And I though I was bad about burning through the PLEX :)

Perfect attitude, I approve!
SmilingVagrant
Doomheim
#103 - 2014-02-11 02:53:14 UTC
"don't undock in anything you wouldn't mind seeing blown up"
Arsine Mayhem
Doomheim
#104 - 2014-02-11 03:04:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Arsine Mayhem
If you're that irate about losing a ship you:

1. need to blow up more ships so you get use to it
2. need to go play something else

your choice.

also if it was a tutorial, they clearly tell you your ship is going to blow up and give you a ship to use for it. there are 2 of them. If I remember one is called "Minimizing Your Losses".
Schminto
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#105 - 2014-02-11 09:50:02 UTC
Miriya Zakalwe wrote:
Schminto wrote:
I've only been playing about a week myself, i thought the tut's did a very good job of teaching you how the game works. I tried the game a few years ago, and quit about 30 mins into it. They have done quite a bit to teach you how the game works.

Today i found the beauty of wormholes, so far im down about 300m isk in blown up ships.. Don't fret that 2-3m isk you lost in a tut, it comes easy enough.



You're a week in and you've already YOLO'd 300m ISK? And I though I was bad about burning through the PLEX :)

Perfect attitude, I approve!


Add another 40.. Just had a local someone or the other come blow my retriever to pieces.

Stop killin meh!
DJentropy Ovaert
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#106 - 2014-02-11 11:11:41 UTC  |  Edited by: DJentropy Ovaert
Vozlov Krovik wrote:


I have absolutely no intention of using Eve Survival. I might as well just watch a lets play on youtube and not even bother playing the damn game.
You actually enjoy knowing exactly what to take with you on a mission, knowing exactly what is coming?
Yet you're one of those that are telling me to not expect Eve to hold my hand, and that I don't have a tough enough skin for it? Lol, Irony.


Just ... wow. You have friendly people recommending that you actually take a moment to do some basic research on what the hell you are doing versus blindly warping in, exploding, and then filling the forums with e-rage due to your inability to read - and you refuse to read? Dude, looking things up via google is helpful, but you don't even need to do that - the mission briefing clearly told you what was going to happen. You just drew your own conclusions about what you thought it was saying, versus was it was actually saying.

Welcome to EVE. You're going to lose dozens and dozens of ships, and it's not going to be fair, friendly, nice, or pretty.

HTFU.

You're gonna do great here, man.
Madrig Maleonid
VANISHED STARGATE
#107 - 2014-02-11 15:47:11 UTC
You're still missing the point man. In real life you are given Intel on the ships that you are pitted against and the weapons they might possibly be using. For most people they enjoy doing the research themselves therefore CCP didn't include it, at least not all of it. If you want to end up warping into a mission blind, by all means don't accept any of the generous help anyone seems to be giving you.

Also, I have an alt that I was completely irresponsible with and hauled 3.6 bill worth of merchandise in an itty mark V and ended up losing it all at a gatecamp. Biggest mistake I have ever made in my whole eve life. But that goes to show that eve still has consequences even to those who have been playing for 6-7 years. Yeah I regret doing it but I learned that's something I won't be doing again any time soon.

Just be glad you lost your free ship to a tutorial... and not 3.6 bill worth of faction mods and ships to a bunch of a-holes waiting for you in the next system.

Also if you look around eve online has the ABSOLUTE WORST tutorial as of any mmo (Google some images of "eve online learning curve". It's a little behind on the release name but it's still accurate to this day) You have to be willing to read what you have to do instead of just assuming what to do next. The fact that you lost your ship is completely your fault for not being prepared regardless of the fact the tutorial did what it was supposed to do.
Leoric Firesword
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#108 - 2014-02-11 15:51:42 UTC
Vozlov Krovik wrote:
So I've been playing the game, and I've been enjoying it for the most part. The user interface is probably one of the most cluster****ed and downright unintuitive I've ever used, and the fact I have to constantly use google screams the developers really didn't put much thought into accessibility for new players, but I digress.

I've been mining whilst doing the tutorial missions, and have a nice few ships I've been getting to know and getting fitted appropriately.

Then I try a mission where I have to escort a ship of civilians. I go there, they are all dead and out of nowhere a group of enemies start pounding the crap out of me. Ok, I guess I've got to destroy them.

No. My capacitor runs out in seconds trying to repair my shields and hull whilst I scramble trying to figure out why my weapon systems aren't doing anything. Oh, because I have absolutely no chance of destroying these things at all. I'm in a tutorial mission and I'm being attacked by things I have absolutely no chance against. The one line in the mission briefing that alluded to this was...

'If anything seems amiss report back to station'

8 words out of 100 that hint at what the mission is going to go like. When I realised I was in an unwinnable situation I attempted to warp back to my station, getting destroyed in the painfully slow process of warming up my warp engines.

Needless to say I was pissed. A tutorial mission that pits you against people you have no chance of beating. The entire mission consisted of going to a place, and then running away from it. WTF kind of tutorial is that?

So now I'm down my best ship, best modifications and my best weapons and all my ammo. All because of a terrible tutorial
mission. Needless to say It's somewhat taken a large chunk out of my interest in the game.

I have nearly 5 million credits, but I'll be spending most of that trying to refit a new ship, so I've literally just wasted the first few days of my trial. TBH I just can't be bothered trying to earn that kinda stuff back at this early stage, so I think I'm out.

/rant.



this isn't WOW, you'll need to learn to read and try again. :)