New players getting their teeth into career agents now will be in for a treat. Career agent missions feature remastered environments designed to entice and to create an immersive experience like no other. The Enforcer career agent is seeing further improvements that shape what is to come: a modernized conversation window (when using Photon UI) and highlights to help guide new players.
The AIR Career Program (ACP) works with and follows on from each career agent, taking players down four career paths of recommended EVE content. Players are rewarded handsomely as they complete goals with support from recommended Skill Plans. The ACP culminates in a graduation moment, sending players out as capable Capsuleers ready to tackle the challenges of New Eden!
Kxmode wrote on Jun 29, 2022, 20:20:VaranDragon wrote on Jun 29, 2022, 14:48:Pretty sure that's part of the "notoriously ruthless" experience.
Can someone please help me with something? I just installed EvE Online, and right click on my mouse doesn't work for me. I can't access half the UI in the game as a result and Im frustrated beyond belief....:(
VaranDragon wrote on Jun 29, 2022, 14:48:Pretty sure that's part of the "notoriously ruthless" experience.
Can someone please help me with something? I just installed EvE Online, and right click on my mouse doesn't work for me. I can't access half the UI in the game as a result and Im frustrated beyond belief....:(
Simon Says wrote on Jun 29, 2022, 05:10:VaranDragon wrote on Jun 28, 2022, 13:18:
Would love to give it another try, but I'm afraid I would get burned...again. This game is extremely unforgiving to players who just want to do their own thing, or even small clans/corps.
What?
Eve has never been more noob friendly. I speak from experience, I have 2 chars from the week the game released in 2003.
Disclaimer: I don't play the game anymore, so I don't have any beef in this game.
Back then you had to go uphill bothways in a hailstorm to make a meager "living" in the game. There were no guides, no help, no shortcuts. You had to figure everything out as you went along, trial and punishing after punishing error. That meme about the learning curve? It WAS true. Making any kind of meaningful ISK/progress was a BITCH! But it was rewarding! It took months to get into a cruiser. YEARS to get into a battleship and afford to run it ( so afford to lose it ).
Nowadays you can make the same progress in a stupidly small fraction of the time ( not even taking into account the skill points injectors they introduced a few years back ). The wealth/progress making opportunities are insane, it's easy mode. There are guides, help and hand-holding for EVERYTHING. New players are in battleships during the first month(s) EASY PEAZY. The meme doesn't mean anything anymore, it's a joke!
You guys have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about.
It's so noob friendly that some "bad bad vets" are accusing CCP of having dumbed down the game way too much. And I must say in some instances I have to agree with them.
VaranDragon wrote on Jun 28, 2022, 13:18:
Would love to give it another try, but I'm afraid I would get burned...again. This game is extremely unforgiving to players who just want to do their own thing, or even small clans/corps.
Hardline Mike wrote on Jun 29, 2022, 01:06:Kxmode wrote on Jun 29, 2022, 00:12:jacobvandy wrote on Jun 28, 2022, 22:21:Kxmode wrote on Jun 28, 2022, 17:50:
Why play a game like this at all if that's how you feel? And why venture into low-sec if you really understood the risk? As mentioned, longer safe routes are always an option. It's no more work to plot that course and autopilot takes you the whole way regardless, it just takes longer.
It wasn't ignorance of PVP in choosing the route. It was the ignorance of not knowing the brutality of EVE players toward low-level players or, as Blue noted in his comment, EVE's notorious ruthlessness. I learned that through first-hand experience. CCP is not going to attract a large number of new players so long as that mechanic is still around.
They aren't going to attract a large number of new players no matter what they do. The nearly 20 year old spaceship has sailed on that. It's still primarily an economic game where a single person can't really accomplish anything without teaming up with other humans. They won't change that mechanic because this core economic gameplay doesn't allow for a drastic redesign of the PvP interactions for many reasons.
Kxmode wrote on Jun 29, 2022, 00:12:jacobvandy wrote on Jun 28, 2022, 22:21:Kxmode wrote on Jun 28, 2022, 17:50:
Why play a game like this at all if that's how you feel? And why venture into low-sec if you really understood the risk? As mentioned, longer safe routes are always an option. It's no more work to plot that course and autopilot takes you the whole way regardless, it just takes longer.
It wasn't ignorance of PVP in choosing the route. It was the ignorance of not knowing the brutality of EVE players toward low-level players or, as Blue noted in his comment, EVE's notorious ruthlessness. I learned that through first-hand experience. CCP is not going to attract a large number of new players so long as that mechanic is still around.
jacobvandy wrote on Jun 28, 2022, 22:21:Kxmode wrote on Jun 28, 2022, 17:50:
Why play a game like this at all if that's how you feel? And why venture into low-sec if you really understood the risk? As mentioned, longer safe routes are always an option. It's no more work to plot that course and autopilot takes you the whole way regardless, it just takes longer.
Kxmode wrote on Jun 28, 2022, 17:50:
The first time I picked up EVE, I decided to do a long 15-jump haul. The route would take me through 7-8 connecting jumps in 0.4 and below space. I understood there was a risk, but I figured the jump points are pretty close, so it should be okay. It was either that or a longer, safer route. Anyhow, the first 0.4 jump was good. Second: good. But when I came out of the third, I was immediately jumped by 3-4 ships and died within two minutes, and they stole my cargo. My reaction was like, "oh, okay. Well, that's a thing." That's when I logged out, uninstalled, and never returned. I don't care what CCP does. Until they address that nonsense, I'm not returning.
VaranDragon wrote on Jun 28, 2022, 13:18:It's literally, "you're here for my amusement." I don't play games where players can destroy another player's effort or prey on others via roaming space gangs. Ultima Online and Asheron's Call Darktide was the last time I dealt with that kind of abuse.
Would love to give it another try, but I'm afraid I would get burned...again. This game is extremely unforgiving to players who just want to do their own thing, or even small clans/corps.