Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You need to get Caroline Dalton on staff to voice a comprehensive set of co-pilot type instructions for newbie tutorial missions, but also all of the information on any item in EVE.

I think the newbie tutorials are most important, to hand-hold new players who don't know wtf. Not only is EVE's gameplay abstract outside of PVE, the UI is also very sparse in terms of instruction and what to do next.

Further narrations to supplement "show info" text is just a quality of life / quality of product improvement, and a huge one. If I had the option of having Aura talk in my ear it would just be -quality-, don't know how else to put it.

A lot in EVE is confusing, and you can't be there to hold players by the hand... but Aura can.

It's not so crazy to think a voice staffer should be on hand for each language, considering how much quality it brings to the game. I rank it up there with Art, and the visuals [beyond the bare minimums].

Normally I would consider such a big suggestion downright silly, but the reason I'm making this one is the attention CCP has given, and continues to give NPE.

I also think Aura should be a holographic figure who follows you around CQ.

well. more like a functioning, interactive information portal character.

When I first started playing EVE in 2010, the number 1 thing I remember about my experience as a new player, was wishing there was an audio play of all the text I had to read.

My first few months of EVE, were on a new custom built pc, except I didnt have a monitor back then. I played on my 50"tv from my couch. I was in transition from console gaming to pc.

Anyways, having to read all the text of the tutorials was a pain. Especially until I found the text resize option in the settings.

I believe the new player experience of the tutorials definitely needs a voice over with option to pause and replay. This can help keep the players eyes focused on the game and less on reading walls of text.

I believe this was asked either during Fanfest or eve Vegas.
As others mentioned, re-recording everything every time something changes, is not something they like, so currently they are keeping an eye out for proper reading out loud software that can do it in a proper eve voice, so they don't have to record it again

She's sultry... I could agree with that.

Assuming it can be done, I guess the question is does EVE have room for this thing, with a story-driven game feel.

I want an opt-in CQ Aura so bad...

CCPeeee... please help

After watching 3 separate friends trial Eve and backseating them while they went through the NPE each got stopped in what I would consider really easy problems (where's the undock button/ where is your item hanger window/ how do I jump through a gate etc).

Perhaps a 'ghosting' mouse or something would work as a substitute to voice instructions. Simply put, if I wasnt there all 3 would have quit rather than push on through the NPE, even though 2 were full time gamers who where simply hit with a wall of text and just wanted to understand in simple terms what they were meant to be doing. The wall of text killed it for them.