EVE New Citizens Q&A

People seem to suggest picking a path and joining a Corp that supports that task, others suggest joining a learner Corp such as EVE university. Is it reasonable to start with a tutor corp and then move to a PVP/mining/exploration corp later on? (that is assuming they'll have me...)

People seem to suggest picking a path and joining a Corp that supports that task, others suggest joining a learner Corp such as EVE university. Is it reasonable to start with a tutor corp and then move to a PVP/mining/exploration corp later on? (that is assuming they'll have me...)

As for tutorials if your missing items and it says that you received them first check the tutorials tab. F12 > Tutorials, this is where all the tutorials are located and you can always go back to them and look at them again. They won't give you the items if you already received them but you can read them again. If they don't give you the items you can always file a petition and just talk to a GM about it and let them know what happened. F12 > Petition > Game play > missions in progress. Just gotta take it slowly and read all of the missions and go through it step by step and make sure you read all of the pop-up windows.

The problem is that "crash course" mentioned by OP is NOT listed there - because such tutorial does not exist anymore. That was replaced by AURA tutorials.

So any reference to "crash course" in game is bug and should be fixed.

Well, it certainly does serve to remind players to read the fine instructions. The mission agent specifically states that the aim of the mission is to fight until your ship explodes. If you're silly enough to think you can overpower the mission and come back in violation of the stated aims of the mission, the mission will be bringing you down a peg or two.

You forgot the only "tutorial" about lowsec being the popup at a gate.

Dear CCP.
You have made what I'm sure is a fine game and it has been successful, with what I gather is something like 400,000 people playing at one time or another. I really believe that this number could have been so many times more than that if you had made the game enjoyable for new players .

I have put about 10 days on and off into the game and it has just been one struggle after another. Every single gindingly painful step forward has been accompanied with hours spent out of the game reading forums and "beginner" guides to the game, scratching my head trying to work out if and when the game might become in any way intuitive. I have deliberately taken the game slow, moving through the initial tutorial and then when prompted starting the career agents. Even this stage of the game is a mess. I have an agent telling me I own a piece of equipment that I do not own. He tells me I got it from the "crash course". I have done everything they have asked of me and I certainly do not own that kit. So I hit f12. Cant see anything about a crash course. I do a search for it. It dosn't seem to be anything I can find within the game interface in any way. I eventually give up and sit and wonder if this game is ever going to be worth the effort. This is the sort of counter-intuitive mess I expect at launch, not many years into a successful MMO's lifespan. This is clearly just a small problem that I could probably sort out by asking on a forum and by searching elsewhere, but the problem is that I'm having to do that for so so much of the game. I'm finding myself in that situation every day.

There will be plenty of people that will say well - if you cant stand a complex game then get out of here and play something easy. But I do enjoy big complex games. I would consider myself a gamer. I have been playing videogames for 30 years. I own over 200 boardgames. I play multiple tabletop wargame systems and I would definitely consider myself someone who is ready to embrace big deep complex games. However - that also means that I expect a decent standard of gameplay out of a big MMO and EVE seems determined to make life as hard as possible for the player in so many unnessessary ways. I don't need the game to be simple, but I just wish it would't be so so obtuse.

Also - ten days into an MMO and I'm afraid I have experienced two views. The inside of my cabin, and the orangy dust clouds of space. I understand that a game set in space will be faced with this problem but the most exiting thing I've seen so far has been a dot in the distance that I have been shooting at. I have not yet encountered anything new, I have not yet encountered any other player other than to see a ship leave the space station and fly off. I'm pretty sure that if I was to head off somewhere for some PVP that would pretty quickly be the end of me. I can't see how I can encounter other players in any way other than in distant chat or in one-sided combat.

I'm just so gutted. I really wanted to enjoy the game. The genre is so poorly served and I really hoped that EVE would provide something satisfying. I love my games, I love my sci-fi, I have disposable income and plenty of free time and I am exactly the sort of gamer that CCP could hook into for years for a game like this. However the game conspires at every turn to frustrate and to turn what should be a game into something that is just hard hard work. As soon as I think I'm making some progress I'll inevitably be faced with a small problem that has no answers in-game and requires me to leave the game and spend an hour searching the net. That is not gaming.

So, I'm sorry CCP, I really think it's likely that you could have many more subscribers than you do if you had done things differently. Not by making the game easier - just by explaining it's complexities more effectively and by designing a UI that works. I guess I'll have to keep looking for a decent space game. X3 seems my best bet. So frustrated.

And CCP's attitutde toward him? "GTFO, you are unfit to play EVE!"

As far as I am aware the modules/skill books are handed out perfectly fine. I personally have run through the initial AURA tutorials and did not have any issues. I received all the modules and skill books that AURA handouts without any issues. Please note that most of them you have to go through ALL dialog boxes in order to receive most of the materials, some of them are handed out one at a time per page.

I haven't gone through the career agents so I don't know from first hand experience the issues that might arise there. If there are issues that you notice please don't hesitate to file a petition if you feel that something is missing/wrong.

What pop-up?