Eve Online: New Player Experience
Eve Online has one of the steepest learning curves of all of the massively multi-player games out right now. To help guide the beginners in the right direction Eve has developed a tutorial system to help get the pilot familar with the universe. Yet, the current system still has a steep curve that frustrates and overwhelms new players. To counter this the developers have changed the way the beginner comes into the universe of New Eden.
The developers have modifed the user interface of the beginning stages of when you create your character and have changed up the way you select you attributes. With the current system, you select your race, sex, bloodline, ancestry, career, specialization, school, and allocate free attribute points in the character selection. The devolpers have eliminated the school, career, and specilization and have made it to where the new pilot can choose these choices when they get a more firm grasp on the game. The allocation of the free attribute points have also been moved to a later time in the pilots creation. On top of this, the skills that the new pilot will get are going to be more tailored to helping the new pilot right in the beginnin. This will cause the current amount of skill points you start with to drop from 800k to 50k (This is not final yet, still under going tests. Remember that the older players in Eve started with WAY less than 800k.)
Now, this update also pretains to the veteren pilots as well. All pilots in Eve will be able to reallocate 14 of their attribute points once a year. So that means if you accidently trained Charisma in the beginning then you can now move them to another category. Also, the NPE will help aide in the creation of alternate toons for those vets who need that extra help out in 0.0.
All of this can be read on CCP Fear's blog.
- Noodles
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