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1.1- The core of what we are doing:

    * Every new character will get between 800k and 810k SP. No more, no less.
    * Players can choose between 4 races, 12 bloodlines, 42 ancestries and in all 24 new very different career specializations (4 races x 3 careers x 2 specializations).
    * We are not touching the basic attributes – They will remain as they have been.
    * Characters get skills that strictly originate from their cultural background – Amarr and Gallente are armor oriented, Caldari and Minmatar shield oriented, etc. – Any cross-cultural overlap is as EVE design dictates.
    * We provide detailed and summarized descriptions of the options in each step, and weave them together so that players can create a character quickly and impulsively or take their time contemplating the options as they desire.
    * We reduce the number of steps a player has to go through to create his character.
    * We add roleplaying information to the existing and new character creation steps.
    * Use the last step of the character creation as a “Confirmation” page, where every choice can be reviewed.
    * The layout of the character creation is vastly improved so that…
          o People that have seen nothing or heard nothing about EVE except possibly the introduction movie, are reasonably aware of the impact of their choices.
          o A summary of all options within the current step will be visible simultaneously.
          o Those wanting more than a summary are provided with detailed information upon request
          o A human voice recites all the detailed information for increased clarity and understanding (will be implemented in Revelations 2nd phase).
          o A progress bar makes it easy to jump back and forth in the character creation, reviewing and changing individual selections.

Until now, people have been able to create over 1.400 possible character combinations. Thereof, 126 characters yielded under 6000 SP, but a player who got lucky (or knew the game enough to know what to pick) could get over 303.000 with one of the combinations. Furthermore, hundreds of combinations resulted in less than 20.000 SP, while only about 20 resulted above 275.000 SP.

A player realizing 4 weeks into the game that they could have started with over fifty times more SP with a few different choices (perhaps made in ignorance or by mistake) is bound to become a little miffed.

The new character creation does not punish those that are unlucky or don’t notice or realize the importance of SP this early on, since the maximum difference between the high and low of 800-810.000 is close to 1%. It is in line with the EVE vision that the gamers should be minimally subject to luck and maximally subject to skill. And it is not reasonable to assume that every potentially skillful pilot gets exposed to the correct data before booting the game up for the first time.

Of these 800.000 skill points, 512.000 are derived from two level 5 skills of rank 1 (or one skill of rank 2) that each character gets as a part of his school’s career specialization.

Essentially, we are shaving off what has been considered by subscribers and the media alike, to be “mandatory training time” during which there is little people can do, and allowing people to start doing something sooner. This criticism has been consistent and as it has played out (and I will get into that later), it has become at least partially true.

2.2- Operation: Revelations compensation
The Mission: To compensate people that have less skill 800.000 skill points when we upgrade to the new character creation.

Every character that has less than 800.000 SP will receive skills until he has more than 800.000 SP. Characters created a week before we patch will thus have the same amount of SP as new characters, or more. They will naturally also have the advantage over completely new characters of more ISK and of course experience.

The upside of giving every character this treatment (including inactive characters sharing accounts with a “main” character) is that everybody feels the love. Players that have been playing for a while will always have an advantage on freshly created characters, be it in ISK or simply in gaming experience.

I still remember my frustration in finding out that not only did I have to train a skill to fit a missile launcher, I had to train yet another skill to load the missiles into the launcher.

As far as I could tell while playing - it only ever took a couple of months to get a single ship configuration set up anyway, beyond that it seemed you were training for diversity.

Level 5 Skills
Drone Navigation
Drones

Level 4 Skills
Drone Sharpshooting
Scout Drones
Iron Will
Gallente Frigate

Total of 801k skillpoints.


Much much better turn out for a new player than the normal skill set! If my alt didn't already kick ass at 9mil SP, I'd restart her.

I hate chasing jetcans.

Does the tractor beam work on ship wrecks ?

Skill Training - Queue or Dual training

Enabling players to either queue so that training takes the next skill level or starts training another skill up another level. Dual training enables you to have a primary long-term skill in training with a secondary short-term skill sharing the training time. After the secondary skill level has trained, the primary skill trains at 100% again.

Just wanted to point out that this item is at the top of their "Drawingboard":

Just wanted to point out that this item is at the top of their "Drawingboard":

Which one?

I know you need at least one other person to do mining alone when you get to the good stuff.

Not always but it's it's a good idea to have someone or something to keep your mining vessel from being blown up.  If you want to do serious mining without losing all of your hair, you will want a good mining platform (battleship or barge, depending) and a hauler so you don't have to stop mining to empty your cargo at the station, and probably some combat escort to eliminate hostiles.  Your solo options are generally limited to secure space and you'll still need to defend yourself, but it can be done.

Not always but it's it's a good idea to have someone or something to keep your mining vessel from being blown up.  If you want to do serious mining without losing all of your hair, you will want a good mining platform (battleship or barge, depending) and a hauler so you don't have to stop mining to empty your cargo at the station, and probably some combat escort to eliminate hostiles.  Your solo options are generally limited to secure space and you'll still need to defend yourself, but it can be done.