Being Overwhelmed: New and Old Players

Author: David Peralty Category: EvE Online Tags: Add new tag, learning curve

Tuesday
Apr 7, 2009

learningcurve4 450x437 Being Overwhelmed: New and Old Players

EVE Online has been working hard at making the new player experience as easy to slip into as possible as their learning curve has always been insanely high, but I think that they don’t realize how overwhelmed older players can be in their game.

There are simply too many choices, too many paths. I want to do too many things, and the more things I want to do, the less competitive I become for my age in the game. There are combat focused characters that have only played half as long as me, and they can destroy me with little effort. There are industrial characters that have the same advantage, and this is all because I am overwhelmed by the possibilities.

Currently, I am training leadership skills, so that I can take on squads and give effective bonuses to my fleet, while queuing up skills to make my future Jump Freighter run more effectively, and thinking about how I can fit a ship for the maximum damage output possible, so that my cousin and I can pair up on some smaller PvP runs.

He has been able to consistently stick to combat skills, while I continue to go off task. Seems to me like EVE Online needs to work a bit more on its “old player experience” as well.

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