Because it's haaaaaaaaaaard
/me rolls over on couch.
/me grabs cookie dough tube.
/me eats the entire tube in four bites.
/me naps.

Because CCP and my boss both have the same mentality.


The best way to teach someone how to swim is to throw them off a boat

Because CCP and my boss both have the same mentality.

The best way to teach someone how to swim is to throw them off a boat

we heard a lot of blashblahblah about the weapons lab and the virtual trainer where corps could test weapons and practice w/o losing clones and equipment. why would Dust not have this at launch? this is a game where weapons have a real cost and the SP to use them does too! why not have a place where we can try the weapons out before learning stuff like the PLC is a piece of crap that doesnt do enough dmg?

just a horrible decision. iteration is folly if u dont have all the basic ground floor stuff in first.

we heard a lot of blashblahblah about the weapons lab and the virtual trainer where corps could test weapons and practice w/o losing clones and equipment. why would Dust not have this at launch? this is a game where weapons have a real cost and the SP to use them does too! why not have a place where we can try the weapons out before learning stuff like the PLC is a piece of crap that doesnt do enough dmg?

just a horrible decision. iteration is folly if u dont have all the basic ground floor stuff in first.

Eve Online is famous for its crazy learning curve, and even it has a dozen or so tutorial missions where you learn how to fire your weapons, which weapon systems are good against what, flying your ship, etc.

We have the academy. That's it. As far as NPE goes, it's pretty much the worst way to educate a new player.

We need* a kind of "virtual reality" training room where you can try out a new weapon. Maybe some simple AIs that strafe back and forth or jump around. The ability to select specific NPC "dummys" to fire at; for instance, an Amarr sentinel dummy you can shoot at to determine how quickly your new anti-armor fitting is going to work. Make sense?

Just something to allow people to get a feel for the game before getting their b-holes rocked in pubs.

*: Yes, I'm using the word "need". It's not a ******* nice-to-have. We NEED this. Dust needs to retain newberrys now more than ever.

the target range in PS1 by no means prepared you really for anything.. all it did was give you a feel for shooting at a stationary target.. your only choice was to go get face stomped.. too much entitlements these days- "as a new player i deserve easy mode and my hand held or else i will leave game and tell all my little lunchroom buddies how hard it was and not worth it"..

we heard a lot of blashblahblah about the weapons lab and the virtual trainer where corps could test weapons and practice w/o losing clones and equipment. why would Dust not have this at launch? this is a game where weapons have a real cost and the SP to use them does too! why not have a place where we can try the weapons out before learning stuff like the PLC is a piece of crap that doesnt do enough dmg?

just a horrible decision. iteration is folly if u dont have all the basic ground floor stuff in first.

I'll tell you when I started EVE, they threw my pod in a velator and launched me out of the station. None of this hand holding, namby-pamby, "teaching" they do now.

Because CCP and my boss both have the same mentality.


The best way to teach someone how to swim is to throw them off a boat

Back in MY day, we had to slow burn to the station in the snow uphill both ways the tutorial was "Poof, here you are in space next to a veldspar asteroid. Try to lock onto it and mine it, then take the ore back to the station and refine it."
Complete these two tasks and congratulations, you are a space captain!

That was it.

That was the entire tutorial.

No further help beyond what you could figure out.

I shot the tutorial drone with my civilian gatling railgun and failed the tutorial by means of CONCORD obliteration (no safety system, you were one misclick away from committing assisted suicide every time you undocked). Welcome to EVE, MrShooter! **** you!

Dust's current "tutorial" is at least twice as advanced and comprehensive

Back in my day;

there wasn't one.