Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
It's changed again recently, but when I first started playing properly they had several tutorial agents that would walk you through aspects of the game, skilling up to destroyer, making some ammo, transporting goods, etc. as well as Aura the ships computer slapping annoying information panels on everything.
Not great, way to much reading and assumed knowledge, but not the worst tutorials in existence.

I believe it's been replaced with an 'opportunities' system that sounds slightly more fitting for a sandbox.
That sounds like they have at least attempted to close that gap for new people playing that game....I remember being so confused when I started playing Eve. Thankfully I got into a decent Corp. and they pointed me in the right direction...incidentally they pointed me to 0.0 space and I never looked back after that...