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EVE Online: Exploring the New Player Experience

Posted October 27th, 2009 by Dalmarus

New EVE Online players get a helping hand.
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An enigma in a world where MMOGs are shifting towards easy accessibility, EVE Online has continued to grow despite its devilish learning curve. The days of being thrown completely into the deep end without a life vest are gone, but the game is still easily the most complex MMOG on the market today. Join Eric “Dalmarus” Campbell as he jumps into the darkness of space. Will he sink or swim? There’s only one way to find out.

Being a competent EVE Online player requires you to learn more about the game and the universe it's set in than most high school classes, but in recent months, the curve has been smoothed out. Instead of feeling like you went all ten rounds of a championship bout with Mike Tyson in his prime, it's more like going one round with his whiny ear-biting self of today; you know he still hits like a Mack truck, but your odds of survival have now vastly improved.

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I started playing Eve about 3 months ago and the new player experience was great. The tutorial and following missions really helped me out alot. Of course once I was done with all of the tutorial missions, flying around in my punisher, I had absolutely no clue what to do or where to go. There was no more hand holding and rather then shut everything down right there, I was rather excited at what lay ahead.

I went into Eve expecting this enormous learning curve. I was pleasantly surprised a...

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