I don’t know how much time I spent playing with the char creation of the new races, but it was really hard to make a choice. There are so many awsome-looking combinations and so great characters.

I’m really pleased with the final result, though. I love her so much. These portraits make you really want to try to roleplay.

I think she is going to be nice with you ;)

That said, I also had to spend as much time with the char creation as to wrestle with the tutorial. The servers are currently in a BAD state and my new shiny character gets constantly stuck (right now the server went down again) and swamped in all sort of exception errors, crashes and disconnections. The tutorial goes crazy if you get desynched with it and it wasn’t simple to un-stuck myself in a number of situations.

The newbie system is insanely crowded but I guess things will get better as the shiny of the new races will wore off. It’s still fun to see noobs blowing up on a not so clear step of the tutorial where it asks you to “try” to shoot to the station but WITHOUT confirming the action. CONCORDOKEN!

Eve just hit 106k of subscribers (mostly thanks to the double accounts promotion, to be honest), but I hope the new players have the patience to wait for the situation to settle down. Right now it is not too pretty and the problems add to the already steep learning curve.

I don’t think the average player knows how to wrestle with the tutorial, read the symptoms of something going wrong and clear the client cache files to get unstuck (when getting unstuck is a possibility).