most games have a slider / graphical way of showing power accuracy fire rate mobility etc. i think that this would be a good standard to adapt.

on new characters there is a full background thing with race etc i think you should simplify it or at least put after it what kind of character do you want , assault sniper heavy etc then have the starting SP's put into those catagories. for instance i like heavy weapons but had to cross train for them and amarr drop suit. which cost time isk and more inportantly time!

There a different weapons at the same meta level such as normal assault riffle and breacher assault riffle. upon reading the infos you can see that the breacher hits harder but less often etc. this is a little long winded and i feel will alienate none eve players that you're trying to recruit. most games have a slider / graphical way of showing power accuracy fire rate mobility etc. i think that this would be a good standard to adapt.

on new characters there is a full background thing with race etc i think you should simplify it or at least put after it what kind of character do you want , assault sniper heavy etc then have the starting SP's put into those catagories. for instance i like heavy weapons but had to cross train for them and amarr drop suit. which cost time isk and more inportantly time!

These would be good ideas for a pure FPS, however, this game will have more of a MMO feel to it, thus these elements and details are important.

I do agree whole heartily with the new character suggestion though - even after reading the descriptions, on one toon, I was totally at a loss for why 1 set of skills were trained and not what I had imagined would be trained. They could even implement a RPG style character creation where you get X amount of SP at the beginning to "spend" how you want (with the caveat that no skill would be able to be trained above level 3 at creation). I believe that may help with some confusion.

With the kind of numbers involved, and the variance between weapons, any visual representations would either be meaningless when comparing weapons of different types, or meaningless when comparing weapons of the same type.

Compared with the stats of a Forge Gun, there will be barely any visible difference from one AR to the next on any of the stats if you use bars to indicate the values. And if you adjust the bars based on the type of weapon, you may as well not both telling people anything.

The depth and complexity is part of the reason this game is good. It's different from a conventional FPS, but not in a negative way.

I do like the idea of being given a amount of SP at begining and choicing yourself what to go down.

I agree the diffence between a forge gun and assault riddle would be huge but between just assault riffles it would be quicker to find the weapon that befits your play style more. i find the howl going into info and moving over into attributes to be quite long winded and i'm worried that this is the kind of game mechanic that might put pure fps's off. i agree that this game is suppost to be a hybrid but i think it needs to be carful not to alienate either demographic.

I do like the idea of being given a amount of SP at begining and choicing yourself what to go down. yes there are no classes persay but i have still put all my SP's and isk into making a heavy gunner for instance. and when i have spair SP i will learn all the other stuff but for now the SP's being used in galantea and caldari drop suits for instance is wasted.