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How Do I Skip the Tutorial?

sonulinu2sonulinu2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited April 2013 in The Academy
I understand there is a way to skip the tutorial for new toons; that after character creation a pop up window appears and you are given the option to skip the tutorial.

Well this doesn't happen for me. I have played 7 toons all VA and each time I had to go through the Tutorial. It's driving me crazy.

When I finish with character creation, the screen flickers for a second or two, I see my character's back and he is standing in a blackened room/area, then it switches to the interior of the ship under attack from the Borg. It seems like I skip over (no pun intended) the screen that allows me to forego the tutorial. Is there an Option I have to pick? Deleting and redoing a new toon doesn't help and neither does rebooting. Any ideas what to do?
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Hmm ... that is strange.

    Does the opening cinematic play for Fed toons?
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  • sonulinu2sonulinu2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    psycoticvulcan wrote: »
    Hmm ... that is strange.

    Does the opening cinematic play for Fed toons?

    The one with Leonard Nimoy's voiceover? Yes, then straight into character generation.
  • tangolighttangolight Member Posts: 777 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I just tried making a new character to test, and this is what I got, before the cinematic would have played:

    http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/9151/tutorialskipping.jpg
  • sonulinu2sonulinu2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    tangolight wrote: »
    I just tried making a new character to test, and this is what I got, before the cinematic would have played:

    http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/9151/tutorialskipping.jpg

    This is the screen that pops up for a second and disappears!

    And I got it wrong, the order is Character Generation, 1 second screen, then cinematic, then onboard ship. So how can I get the above screen to last more than a second?
  • tangolighttangolight Member Posts: 777 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Make sure you're not pressing anything after you hit play. After the screen shows up and disappears, check the bottom right corner of your screen. Another dialogue screen may have caused it to minimize. Look for a button that says 'Welcome'.
  • sonulinu2sonulinu2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    tangolight wrote: »
    Make sure you're not pressing anything after you hit play. After the screen shows up and disappears, check the bottom right corner of your screen. Another dialogue screen may have caused it to minimize. Look for a button that says 'Welcome'.

    Not pressing a thing. Nothing in the bottom right corner other than the cinematic. No button, no welcome. Ugh :(
  • starke1701starke1701 Member Posts: 127 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    sonulinu2 wrote: »
    Not pressing a thing. Nothing in the bottom right corner other than the cinematic. No button, no welcome. Ugh :(

    Depending on when you rolled up characters, it might not pop. If you've done the tutorial in the last couple months, though, it should.

    In the mean time you could always sit in the tutorial and grind up "Liberated" on your character, then wander into ESD with a (usually) endgame title on your Lt 1, and confuse the six people that figure out something's off...
  • malakhglitchmalakhglitch Member Posts: 55 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Have you checked your keyboard? It might have a stuck button.
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  • tangolighttangolight Member Posts: 777 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    sonulinu2 wrote: »
    Not pressing a thing. Nothing in the bottom right corner other than the cinematic. No button, no welcome. Ugh :(

    I don't know then, as I'm not experiencing the same thing you are. If you don't just have a stuck key or something, then it might be a bug you should bug report/take up with tech support.
    starke1701 wrote: »
    Depending on when you rolled up characters, it might not pop. If you've done the tutorial in the last couple months, though, it should.

    The last character I made before testing this was about a year and a half ago (slightly under, as it was just after the F2P transition) and I had no problems getting the option to skip. Though it is a valid point - I know that if you haven't created a new character since they added the option to skip the tutorial, you'll need to go through the tutorial at least once with a character made since that change to get the option to skip it.
  • poddlipoddli Member Posts: 173 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Do you have any accolade notifications as soon as you begin? The skip window pops up, then vanishes because you are getting the 100, 200, 300, etc. days subbed accolade.

    You should have a button in the bottom right to open up the skip dialogue again. At least that is the way it works for me.
  • sonulinu2sonulinu2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I guess it's been longer than I remember in creating a new toon. I started a new one, went through the whole tutorial, then created a second new one and that one gave me the option to skip.

    Thank you everyone for your support and assistance! :D
  • tenkaritenkari Member Posts: 2,906 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    sonulinu2 wrote: »
    I guess it's been longer than I remember in creating a new toon. I started a new one, went through the whole tutorial, then created a second new one and that one gave me the option to skip.

    Thank you everyone for your support and assistance! :D

    i believe if you hadent made a char since F2P you had to go through the tutorial at least once after then to get the option to skip.
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