I wanted to post a topic i am sure a lot of new, but also returning players encounter.
The tutorials, including the tutorials about the paths you can take tend
to, in a lot of cases already couse a slight information overload, but then in the middle of a tutorial a GM comes pokeing around asking questions in chat while people already get bombarded with information.
Eve is a complicated game, a new player trying to do the tutorial should not also be contacted by a GM asking about how they like the game after 30 mins of playing.
So i think it would be better if GM’s try to contact after new chars have spent more time in game. a new player has no cleu what they got in to after 30 mins or an hour.
Took me a quite a few hours to get adicted to the game, not 30 mins.
don’t get me wrong, it’s great GM’s aproach new players, but give them more time to get to know the game. most new players get overwhelmed and don’t notice a GM is trying to poke them in chat, the ones that do are old players and ignore those messages
So i’d say, wait a lil longer to aproach new players, once players get past the job tutorials they tend to be more open to GM contact.
well, thats what i noticed so thought i’d give my lil imput
I started playing EVE not two months ago and I don’t know what you mean by “information overload”. The game doesn’t go along leaving the new player behind. There is always time between career agent missions to go online for information or rookie chat and ask questions. I have found the community very helpful in that regard.
As far as GMs poking around and asking questions, I can say that no one ever contacted me asking how things were going.
I also read about the Magic School Bus and what that was all about but I haven’t received anything either. I can say that, for an MMO, I haven’t had much contact with anyone. I did receive 1 mail to join a corporation but it operates in a part of the cluster I don’t care to go to.
That’s it.
Fly Safe o7
@Mike_Azariah Thank you, that explains a lot since I have been hanging out in LowSec and I only ever opened Rookie Chat when I had a question, which wasn’t often.
To be fair, this happens to me every time on any new account. I’ll be in Emrayur messing with the UI and a GM will contact me, ask about my wellbeing and put Magnates in my redeem queue even after I tell them I’m an experienced player on a concept alt. It’s creepy. Maybe it’s a timezone thing.
As far as I can remember, there has never been a good NPE tutorial. there is just too much to learn when fighting other humans instead of NPC’s. Humans tend not to get into a fair fight…
EVE is like no other game in that there is no safe place anywhere.
To be fair, I think I missed Magic School Bus announcements in Local and/or Rookie Help since I could get most comprehensive help on the World Wide Web. Been spending more time in my internet browser than in the game.
I have had people contact me and ask “how it’s going” etc on alts from time to time, usually when they’re brand new and I still have the 90 minute timer up in the left corner.
I was not enamoured.
They did give me free stuff but in an age where any unsolicited contact on the internet from someone you don’t know is never going to be good it does seem odd, if I’m being honest.
