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Title: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: Endie on May 08, 2010, 10:58:00 AM This is bound to leak anyway, and is meant for a wider audience, to help newbies to Eve and not just Goonwaffe newbies, so here you go. I'm pretty proud of it, and it is one of the elements I've carried out in the director of newbies/mentors part of my role. Also, let me know if the goonfleet content delivery network needs you to have a goonfleet cookie, in which case I will rehost it.
Quote Eve is a terrifyingly hard game to get into as a newbie, especially if you're going to 0.0 on day one. What better way to help with that learning curve than to write some :words: and then say "phenomenally-talented artist and designer Poluketes please make this look amazing". He worked like a bastard for two weeks and he has come up with a design that is accessible, clear, gorgeous and just generally better than I have words for. Hopefully this will help with retention in the upcoming newbie drive. Poluketes did the vast majority of the design and original art-work, with a little by Stahlregen. I did most of the hurfiest and blurfiest words but with a lot of help from Tector and additional words by Anela Cistine and Pmchem and additional anecdotes by Firstname Lastname, Remedial, RLeonis, and xeus909 amongst others. You can download the 2010 Goonwaffe Newbie Guide here (http://cdn.goonfleet.com/newbies/newbieguide-final.pdf). Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: NiX on May 08, 2010, 11:30:03 AM Link works. That's one masterpiece of a guide.
Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: stu on May 08, 2010, 11:31:44 AM I don't play Eve, but that is fantastic.
Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: lac on May 08, 2010, 12:02:16 PM That's some great artwork you got there.
Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: Numtini on May 08, 2010, 12:04:14 PM That's truly brilliant, gets across the game and dare I say it, goon culture.
Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: Prospero on May 08, 2010, 12:29:14 PM That's brilliant. It makes me wish I had more time to try playing with you guys.
Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: Mrbloodworth on May 08, 2010, 12:29:19 PM Bravo! Looks like it was quite an undertaking.
Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: Stabs on May 08, 2010, 01:04:40 PM That looks fantastic, good job!
Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: Comstar on May 08, 2010, 02:10:56 PM Damm, that guide almost made me want to play again. Almost. Then I remember the lag for fleet fights.
But giving out a claymore's bonuses to a wing of newbees might make up for it....when the next drive starts, you need to get people posting stories of action, adventure and hilarity. The info I get from the War thread here and the SA thread is pretty thin. Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: Amarr HM on May 10, 2010, 08:55:31 AM That's brilliant, makes me want to play a terrible game with terrible people.
Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: Sir T on May 10, 2010, 10:16:36 AM Fantastic :D
Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: Gets on May 11, 2010, 04:35:51 AM I hope the latest newbie drive goes well. I can imagine the increased effort the existing players have to put in to convince new people to join and bitter vets to come back during each of these.
The "What?" written next to the sov system explanation feels especially close to home. Would read again. Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: Amarr HM on May 11, 2010, 05:15:15 AM Just gonna reitirate, that guide has seriously pro graphic design of which I would be proud. Only thing it's missing is the Bat Bee!
Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: tgr on May 11, 2010, 05:27:07 AM My favorite bit was "halp I'm tackled in a belt", because it reminded me of mr "officer spawn". :grin:
Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: Falwell on May 11, 2010, 05:36:54 AM The DBRB tarot is the masterstroke, good stuff.
Title: Re: The Goonwaffe Newbie Guide 2010 Post by: tgr on May 11, 2010, 06:28:17 AM Honestly, tons of the little touches like the DBRB tarot is probably not going to be understood at all by someone who hasn't been a goon at some point.
I'm a bit miffed myself, actually, as I never heard the FC himself, I just kept hearing the guy talking over the FC. Damn jabberbox. :oh_i_see: |