Hello, Cranky Kong. The truth is, this game is more complex than most, and new players don't seem to be taking it very well.

You guys always get a plug in there somewhere, don't you?

Regardless, I already have a corporation. The community does a decent enough job of teaching players if they ask for help, but it shouldn't be the job of the community to hold every nubblet's hand when CCP is supposed to give them more info. Adding a panel that tells you to get into a battle and get slaughtered, congratulates you for wasting all of your SP and then hands you an Active Booster you will undoubtedly waste is not helping; it's just bullshit.

Also, to the poster above, yes, some players will be new to the FPS genre. Some will be children. They are not usually getting confused by simple FPS concepts such as, move left stick to walk and right stick to aim or press the triggers to fire/throw a grenade. The concept is clear; shoot the other players before they can shoot you. They are confused by everything else. A good example is Dropships. The things are hard as hell to steer as a new pilot and what does CCP do? They flash the controls at you for 2 seconds as you step in and expect you to fly. Millions of ISK in dropships later, you'll, hopefully, not be crashing into a lamppost on take off.

It's like Battlefield. The first time I got in a Helicopter, it did a vertical U turn on take off and landed on its blades because the game never explained how to pilot the damn thing. The blueberries suck, but they could suck less with knowledge and some sort of midpoint between shooting helpless nublets in militia gear and getting shot at by Assault Rifle Player 1234 who's been playing the game for a year and has 20m SP.

Regardless, I already have a corporation. The community does a decent enough job of teaching players if they ask for help, but it shouldn't be the job of the community to hold every nubblet's hand when CCP is supposed to give them more info. Adding a panel that tells you to get into a battle and get slaughtered, congratulates you for wasting all of your SP and then hands you an Active Booster you will undoubtedly waste is not helping; it's just bullshit.

Also, to the poster above, yes, some players will be new to the FPS genre. Some will be children. They are not usually getting confused by simple FPS concepts such as, move left stick to walk and right stick to aim or press the triggers to fire/throw a grenade. The concept is clear; shoot the other players before they can shoot you. They are confused by everything else. A good example is Dropships. The things are hard as hell to steer as a new pilot and what does CCP do? They flash the controls at you for 2 seconds as you step in and expect you to fly. Millions of ISK in dropships later, you'll, hopefully, not be crashing into a lamppost on take off.

It's like Battlefield. The first time I got in a Helicopter, it did a vertical U turn on take off and landed on its blades because the game never explained how to pilot the damn thing. The blueberries suck, but they could suck less with knowledge and some sort of midpoint between shooting helpless nublets in militia gear and getting shot at by Assault Rifle Player 1234 who's been playing the game for a year and has 20m SP.

It'll never be finished. I'm sorry, but I don't see the big "Beta" tag there anymore. I don't know what needs to be done, but giving some militia suits to someone for joining a battle and speccing into any random skill isn't fixing the situation.

Pilots need better tutorials on flying dropships, first off. I've met HAV pilots that didn't even know that you could disable active modules to start the cooldown timer right away. Not that crucial, but still stupid. It's never pointed out that you can see the efficacy and range of your target and I find that a lot of blueberries never noticed that they exist, thus forever are unaware of their proper range. I see blueberries that don't know how to even call in a vehicle, or use an Orbital. There are berries that don't even understand how you GET an Orbital, let along launch one. A solid 30% of the squads I join, the leader doesn't know how to set an order. Tons of guns have no militia variants, so berries have to waste their SP on them to test them out. I consider this to be a part of educating new players, too.

Actually, in many shooters, the ultimate beginners really start with pve to learn the basics, not "trial by fire" multiplayer. This is where'd you'd cover most of the interface/UI/Fitting issues and at least the combat side of things would be controlled - so that you could be thrown one drone at a time, or make some scenarios like "get in turret, then shoot drones", then call a vehicle, get in vehicle, learn to operate vehicles in a controlled environment, then it would switch - destroying vehicles and turrets, then you need to refill ammo, so you'd learn to use the supply depots, hack things, etc.

Until they get PvE up and running, any new player experience they try to shoehorn into the academy will just be a stop-loss rather than an effective new player retention tool.