EVE Information Portal

I love the opportunity system and how it is much more "sandboxy" than the old crash course.

HOWEVER:

1- IT. NEED. REWARDS. Seriously That's part of the pleasure of running the tutorial.
If you don't want to tie a specific reward to a specific opportunity, why not having each completed opportunity fill a progress bar, with numerous steps giving (very basic) rewards (skill books, civilian stuff, etc...)
Use the delivery system for the rewards, and it gives you an excuse to teach it to players.

2- We should be able to hide the opportunity pannel on the left side of the screen. Make it an option, please.

3- The opportunity map is ugly. It needs to be pretty and appealing! That's one critical part of the UI for new players, if needs to make them want to stay. I am aware that there are plans for this, but having a decent map -instead of randomly placed opportunities in a window- is something that should be present day one when opportunities were released.

4- As the number of opportunities increases, so does the confusion with all these alveoli that look exactly the same.

Bonus points to the dev team if the related Achievement Opportunity would be called 'Mischief Managed!'

Doh.. starting to sound like World of Warcraft with achievements, next we will get to level our character to level 100 & add Paragon levels like Diablo3

If there's no "suicide gank a pod" achievement ...

... then something is clearly missing.

Then there should be an "evade faction police without leaving grid" achievement ...
... and "shoot shuttle and pod in one go, under sentry fire in a thrasher" achievement.

"The Bitter Taste of Pod Goo."

I aim lower, this is EvE after all.

Achievements aren't that much of an issue as long as there are no rewards.

I totally agree that achievements alone are already something that make people addicted ...
... but rewards would be even worse.

Yes, a lot of people feed their ego with achievements ...
... but you have to remember that literally everyone will have them anyway.


It's not completely the same as in, like XBLA or steam games ...
... I hope.


In any way can't we blame CCP for doing something that caters to these people.
If that's how you get them, then that's the way for CCP to go.

It's not CCPs fault at all.
They just want to keep the business running and increase it.

The fact that the whole industry nowadays is pretty much going after lower instincts ...
... and making people addicted ...
... well, it's a sad fact but there's nothing going to change that.

Most of the world is working this way already.
It's the same for advertisements.
Marketing in general.

We got to a point where every time someone tries to sell you something ...
... there's a gigantic scientific background behind it.

It's all about removing conscious thought and triggering the "I WANT" button,
combined with making people feel inadequate when they don't have "it".

Yeah, we have actually discussed this before mate .
The only issue we found with it last time was if it were in a mission scenario it would be immediately gamed by someone for a profit, certainly something worth thinking about


Traveling suspect is actually pretty fun when you choose to do it,
I used to get a rush from it when I started flipping mission bears (I still kinda do actually but it's lost the edgy fear it used to have)

This is a terrible line of reasoning, though to call it reasoning is a compliment. Because CCP has added what are little more than notifications telling players how to do certain actions in game, with feedback when they complete that that action, CCP is now catering "to players that want to be led on quests"? Also, you give absolutely no evidence that " the ONLY players that this will cater to are the ones who will ONLY care about the achievement." (Sorry, putting "only" in caps does not make it any more plausible.) Giving new players feedback , for instance, about the ability to manually control ships in space, and then informing them that they've done so, is only of interest only to players that want the "achievement" itself? That's like saying the skills mastery system is a bad system in game because it leads players to only train skills to get the mastery levels.

Also, you contradict yourself. You first complain that players might not come on an op or roam because they are completing achievements, but then you complain that players should be "making their own path" in game. If some players would rather complete achievements than go on a roam, isn't that their own way of "making their own path"?

The thing that amazes me about bad posters is that they are somehow still intelligent enough to operate a computer and keyboard.