Yes.  I like the clever use of having exactly 2 starting missions for **COMBAT** where 1 is *** artifact scanning.  Also the mission text has bugs doesn't update properly and gets cut off on the screen, the respawn rate is horrendously slow even though I was completely alone and it only spawns at a maximum 3 at a time meaning you ALWAYS have to wait.  These are kill 4 drones missions for brand new players (Crepitus has .42 ICS).  Very ugly.

If this was the first *** I encountered coming in to the game I'm not sure I'd have endured it and most likely would have quit.  Totally serious.  People are used to having their hands held when they're brand new and shiny well polished content out of the box (although I have to admit the old tutorial just ended abruptly and you were left in your diaper sitting out in the cold to figure *** out on your own, which worked, at least for me), even EVE's starter missions aren't this bad and EVE is duller than wet cardboard.

EDIT: The missions I ran before were 3 guys in the golden triangle transport which was actually decent money, ammo, and good reputation gains and while boring (no autopilot ) at least had some incentive.  At least this little taste of Nuimquol starter combat missions is a step backwards.  This is DEFINITELY hurting new player retention if all of the start stuff is this bad.

EDIT3:  I forgot to mention the awesome, what was it, 3 hours? 20% income nerf because I dropped the first artifact mission, which persists even after the next mission was completed?  Way to use a stick with no carrot trying to cram some horrible content down someone's throat, as if the relation loss wasn't bad enough.  FFS (no, this money nerf doesn't matter to me at all but it sure does to that newbie who is very proud of doing enough missions at 10k nic to break their first million).

Just going to leave this here.  I'm absolutely convinced after that terrible PvE experience that what I wrote is at the root of these numbers.  The new tutorial is actually pretty good and much better than the old one.  It's too bad that it ends there.

EDIT5: FIXING STUFF LIKE THIS TO MAKE PVE NOT SUCK *** SHOULD BE YOUR NUMBER 1 PRIORITY, NOT GAMMA!!!!!!!!!  GET BACK TO BASICS. 

More carebears = more targets (eventually).  There are a lot of predators out here and we're running low on prey and only feed on each other for so long..

One of the other guys in squad is definitely above level 1.  I can't check the other one at the moment.  That's a bad mechanic anyway.  Higher level assignments should give better gains.  Lower levels less.  Maybe both relative to each other, but not nothing at all.  My production guy who has 3.72 should have gotten *something* even it wasn't much.

EDIT2:  Which brings me to another point, why can't I see my current standings in some way under Relations?  Why must I be docked?

you won't get any standing for missions two levels below your current standing. Thats similar to how most games do that.
though, most games make your "levels" need exponentially more points, perp makes you get exponentially* less points for lower those out of your range and keep the levels linear.

*exponentionally is not right, the formula is sinus based

So I suppose this isn't a bug then, but a feature discussion, moved.

Your 'missions' are boring and lackluster, and, exceedingly repetitive ... you get the same mission 5 times in a row. They soon become another reason not to play!

*cough*