EVE Fiction

Have anyone ever questioned or considered the oddity of the tutorial/NPE?
From what I remember of the story Jovian Wetgrave, it took a few days to get the Caldari guy to properly use the capsule. And I have some memory of someone somewhere in a chronicle or in-game mention that it takes years to properly train a capsuleer, but when you start up the game for the first time you are introduced to everything.

It feels like you aren't part of some proper school, or academy, or whatever, but you are just some random person that whatever part of whatever empire grabbed off the street.
At first the tutorial where akin to some part of the military putting you in a tank/helicopter/dinghy and tell you to take it from point A to point B.
Over the years they have been starting to label buttons to make it easier, and after seeing Ascension's NPE, everything seems to be labeled.

The Ascension NPE still starts of as if they have just grabbed someone of the street and got to bring them up to speed in the next five minutes.
So am I missing some fluff, or are capsuleers not trained in a military fashion at all, but just scanned to see if they could use a capsule at all and shove them in to one?

If capsuleers are suppose to go through some type of training that is longer than a pamphlet, why are they shown how to navigate a ship, use modules, use the market, use mails and EVERYTHING else on the fly?

It has always been like this, as if we aren't properly trained, we are just random people the empires have kidnapped and forced to learn how to fly a spaceship with our mind.
We have always been greeted, if I remember right, to New Eden as newly graduated pilots. So it seems like we should know how to fly a ship and do stuff. And the new NPE is kinda even worse, especially if you are an Omega clone, as you will start in a destroyed convoy.
Like, for real, the empires let just anyone become immortal, have the possibility to fly anything from a shuttle to a titan, without knowledge of how to engage engines instead of turrets?
This has baffled me for at the least 2 or 3 years, whenever it was that I first made the realization that the start is very weird.
And I've been thinking for as long that EVE's tutorial shouldn't be on Tranquility. Starting to learn this complicated game shouldn't have been on the trail period.

The whole idea of Alphas is that they're allowing the empires to pump out "naval capsuleers" way more quickly than before - the training takes less and the clones themselves are fundamentally different, owing to what's apparently Drifter tech involved in their creation by the SoE.

There's always going to be at least some suspension of belief and storyline in order to introduce new players to EVE, this is just the reality of on boarding people into becoming players of an online game.

It's the same thing as the damsel being rescued 50,000 times per day, or whatever the number might be.

The process of becoming a capsuleer takes years, and it's not an easy journey. It would be entirely unrealistic for us to put a new player through any form of "real" capsuleer training.

Now I'm picturing a tutorial that would attempt to address this. It would go like so:

Cold open to a Velator floating in space, next to a line of other Velators. A Thorax is flying down the line in front of them. Camera zooms in on a particular Velator, and the HUD comes up to indicate that this is the players ship. Off to the right the Thorax stops in front of one of the other Velators.

An angry male voice yells, "You! Yes you capsuleer! Where are you from?"

The capsuleer yells back, voice high and thin with stress, "Sir! TXJ-II in Syndicate sir!"

Male voice again, now even more agitated, "TXJ-II?! Nothing comes from there but enhanced livestock and Caldari sympathizers! Are you enhanced livestock capsuleer?"

The capsuleer replies as loudly as he possibly can, "SIR NO SIR! I LOVE THE FEDERATION SIR!"

The Thorax locks and vaporizes the Velator in a single volley of blaster fire with a scream of, "BULLSHIT! POD YOURSELF!"

At this the capsule now floating in space initiates it's self destruct timer but the Thorax activate its MWD and bumps it 2km while the pilot screams again, "WITH MY SMARTBOMB *******!"

https://community.eveonline.com/backstory/scientific-articles/ppcc-part-1-the-capsule-and-the-clone/
Very good scientific article. Such interesting articles do not write anymore.

Now everything is clear. Drifters is a long time
Amarrian commander - crazy evil fanatic.
I do not advise to start to play for these Amarr fanatics.
Temple of Excellence feyspalm

But...
For low-cost series of Hollywood ok

P.s For new players who have chosen fraction Amarr Empire:
1)It is not Catiz I http://i.imgur.com/pJHlZRE.jpg The picture and the description is Jamyl Sarum I Not in any way not to be confused.
2) In the game itself is still ruled by Jamyl Sarum http://i.imgur.com/YHofj0x.jpg
3) Descriptions COSMOS agents does not correspond to that on the news of New Eden. (Some agents wrote that Amarr is still Emperor)
Not in any way do not attack drifters ! It does not matter.
Join the ranks of nulsek Alliances.

Have a good hunting.