One thing I would like to add about my new character experience - I did not give her isk from another character to start up like I typically would do. It has been a very, very long time since I have been hard pressed for small amounts of isk and I wanted to see how difficult that would make it nowadays. And, I was actually impressed with what I saw. The career agents, despite all their shortcomings and being extremely outdated, give access to some basic ships that are more specialized to do their respective tasks. And I was also very surprised at how much of a difference the isk rewards from the AIR Career Program made. 50k isk may not seem like much when you’re sitting on a few bill in the wallet. But to a newbro, that can pay for a couple t1 modules and a HSBB contract. (And you get a lot of these isk rewards.) So while, yes, I already know how to play and therefore can make more isk faster than a real newbro could, the NPE gives enough resources to stay afloat while a new player figures everything out.
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