Kevall Longstride
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.03.31 18:04:00 -
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Thanks for the Good guys tag. o7
As CEO of DUST University I can tell that while we're happy to do our bit, a well thought out and executed tutorial is going to make everyone's life a lot easier. CCP have a real chance here to craft the kind of indepth but slick tutorial that Eve needed a decade ago but for Dust 514..
The main tools that can help are there on the PS3 itself. The browser should be integrated into the screens of the Merc quarters and direct into the Neocom itself. These forums and more importantly the Corp specific ones should be accesable via the PS3 without leaving the game. Corps should be able to expand beyond the General Discussion, Annnouncments and The Board Room that they have now.
The whole UI needs an overhaul to be perfectly honest. It's pre PS3 exclusive PC origins are apparent with no thought as the limitations (and the plus points) of a Gamepad.
The starter fits are confusing, ill considered and actually not very good fits for a new player. The only unlimited fit should be the one based on the choice of class that the player made to begin with. An interactive tutorial that builds a new fit from scratch, explaining the choices that are required to make it and the inhibitions that prevent the player from adding a bigger gun or larger shield extender.
When a skill is raised a level, a briefer window should appear that instantly tells the player which items have had a boost from the increase, what items have been unlocked because of it and what skillsbooks are now available for purchase and training to level one.
Tutorials should also reward a player for completing them, either by skillbooks being given to them or even a free day of SP boost, both passive and active.
The replace fit to 'x' times should be returned to the fitting screen. On screen warnings or Aura verbally telling them when fits are nearly dry and need replacing need to added (and user disabling of this warning should be added for those payers that learn it quickly).
A help and support channel should be added and like the Eve one, disappear after 30 days but UVT enabled for free and push to talk on.
These are just the things that are coming of the top of my head, I could sit here for hours and list dozens of other smaller stuff but then I'd have nothing to complain about at Fanfest.
Plus I don't want to be doing CCP's job.
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