Play the game.

It would at least allow them to make a choice on which faction they want to play. Just because they tried all three faction light bots doesn't mean they would just leave the game thinking they had done everything there is in the game.

yay, its the greatest idea ever,

i wonder why those AAA+ game titles don't do that.
Let me test a character with maxed out level during the tutorial.
Are you serious?

nono, didn't read that out of your post,
thats something i read everytime the tutorial simulator/instance topic comes up.

the problem is that there are three combat factions + industrial to choose from that have not much meaning in the gameworld at all. Then the new player are spread among three noob-islands, that have neaerly identical content.
After something between minutes and hours gameplay, those new player are "forced" into joining player corps, laying off their "faction" choice, which was nothing but a weapon choice after all.

the implementation of an offline tutorial instance will enable the DEVs with their limited knowledge and experience in level-design, to revert the alpha1 NPCs back to hostile grindspots for macro-farming kernels and fragments.

sure, that tutorial instance will help holding a few more noobs ingame because they could finish the tutorial without kilometer long walks in an arkhe with a geoscanner accuracy of ~30% (if i understand it right, that means a directional charge arrow can be ~60° off!) and running into npcs that kill them all the time.

BUT it wont hold those who leave after 2 (trial) or 6 (1 sub) weeks because the gameplay is plain boring.
At that time, most of them are already in mechs fully fitted with medium weapons (endgame)

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