Yup. It’s hard.
The 21 day trial of EVE seems to make more sense than a 14 day trial; just getting used to the interface is going to take some time. I managed to get started with the tutorial missions yesterday. After the first few I wandered off to find the offices of a Penny Arcade Forums corporation. I ended up doing some tutorial missions for a race/bloodline that I’m not – meaning I couldn’t use some of the rewards yet. Curses.
I wandered back to my section of space and got through about half of the missions for my race and bloodline; I’m not sure if I’m just supposed to do one of these task lines or all of them – I’ve always been a bit of a completionist (within reason) so I’ve been doing all of them.
The new ships I’ve acquired are quite nice. I made the mistake of going out with a rail gun without loading ammo no less than three times (it’s not terribly intuitive – I’m not sure how to make that happen reliably).
I wish there were a way to increase the size of the interface the text is very small. I’m playing on both a 15″ laptop and a 30″ LCD on my gaming rig and everything feels like it could be sized up a tad.
I haven’t received an invite from the Deepcrows yet – I’ve read the threads a few times and I’m already comfortable with the idea that they’re going to call me a spy. Political intrigue is fun!