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Derrels Big Noob Tutorial WIP

Deffinately Not Done

The finished tutorial has been moved because it has been finished.

Updates​

Jan 20. Fixed spelling and errors with Pepto's help, fixed formatting, added updates page, used Wed's radar suggestion, added Malasuerte's suggestion for a fruit and dung section, added Coop's suggestion for PE Auction to replace MyTwoPecs.​
 
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after a quick browse throu, i see u spelled progect, should be project. will add more errors if i find em when i got more time to read it :)
 
Thanks

Thanks :) it really helps.
 
suggestions...

Would be good if u mentioned that u are in Port Atlantis in the Going to Swamp Camp section, becouse some players spawn at TI Castle when they start, so pointing out to go to Port Atlantis before could be good.

When in team your teammates are shown as orange dots on your radar.

U can change the radar view by pressing the little white arrow on the right hand side of the radar if u dont like the defult radar view (thou it seems most ppl use it)



Just a few things i think u should add to the guide :)
 
blackhawk77g said:
Derrels Big Newb Tutorial ​


So you've finally managed to download the game client, create an account, and are excited to play? I hope so. If not please leave.... Just kidding. Even if you haven't dowloaded the client or made an account you can learn about the game you're going to play pretty soon.

You are now on Planet Calypso, a large planet home to many citizens and creatures. You can interact with everyone and everything here. There are untamed lands to find and see, shops and estates to own, and a real cash economy! Yes a real cash economy where money can be put in and taken out! So what are you waiting for? If you haven't already download the game, do so now!

Real Cash Economy​

Entropia is a game like no other. It has a real cash economy! Real USD money (either USD or money, not both) can be exchanged for PED's (Project Entropia Dollars). In the game 10 ped = 1 dollar. The minimum withdrawl is $100 or 1000 ped. If you would like to know about mark-ups on items a good website is My Two Pec's. It has all the percentage mark-ups and rates.

Story​

Right now it is the Second Gold Age of Calypso (Has just ended). In the first, a robot space craft crashed into the planet surface and the world had to be evacuated. The land mass and continents were changed and a giant crater was left as a reminder of the cataclysmic events that occured.


The Start!​

Avatar Creation​

This is the avatar creation stage. Just before arriving you can customize your look. Be sure to do a good job as once your done, you can no longer do that again. Although you can be a beautician, or find a beautician, to do it for you!

Fresh off the Boat​

So you're fresh off the space boat, or whatever you want to call it, and you're standing there not knowing what's going on.(space)To start off you can play the game in first or third person. So here's what you can establish......You're in ugly old clothes and don't know where you are. Well the first thing you want to do is get familiar with the world you're in. You want to understand where you are. Right at the moment you are in Port Atlantis the starting city for all the Noobies out there. (Can also spawn on TI?)

Radar​

Something else to look at is your radar, yes the radar. The radar shows almost everything you want to see without looking at it.

It should include......
A compass to tell you what direction you'reheaded
Several Dots that mean different things such as:
* Blue Dot- A teleporter or TP (-spaceSomething that can transfer you to other places you've been before that have teleporters)
* Red Dot- A mob, better known as one of the many types of animals on Calypso
* Light Purple Dot- Someone in your society (-spaceA group of people, also known in other games as a guild)
* Orange Dot- An NPC shop keeper that you can buy things from.
* Green Dot- This is a fellow player and that could be bad or good.
* White Dot- A dead player, who is going to respawn when he chooses..
* Purple Dot- A dead mob/animal that is ready to be looted by the player that killed it.

Next to the compass should be your health bar and a green dot. This dot will tell you if you are in a pvp zone or not.

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Chat and Emotes​

Chat​

The chat is a great way to communicate with friend's, society mates, and anyone around Calypso. There are also many chat functions that have to do with the chat area. The chat area is the big box on the left hand side of the game screen. Each of the buttons on the top side of the line on the bottom part of the chat screen will turn off a piece of chat. i.e. Trade Chat or Soc Chat. You can go into one of these chats by using the buttons under the line. You press enter/return and start chatting away!

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Emotes

Emotes can be used by right clicking, then using the emotes tab. You can select a dance, a posture, or do an emote. It's all to add to the fun of the game.​


The Basics​

So you know about chat, emotes, the radar, and the controlls. Whats next? Well you can do a few things.

1.Depositspace- Put some money in the game and skip the sweating part.

2.Sweatspace- Go into your inventory (hotkey is I) and equipt your sweat gun. Then walk up to any animal you can find and sweat it.

3.Walk Around and Do Nothingspace- Do you really want to do this?(Exploring)

Well the first option is the easiest. Put some money in and do whatever you want. There are a variety of things to do, so skip the sweating guide and go ahead and learn!


Sweating​

If you picked option 2 or 3 (You should probably pick 2) then you're going to want to go to learn how to sweat. Sweating is when you, the newb, use your colorful green gun and extract sweat from all the animals of Calypso (Not Robots or Humans, Animals!).



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You can do this by equipping the tool and right-clicking the monster, then select the operate option. So you have learnt something and want to pay me back (maybe) dont sweat it, hehehe. (Yes that was a terrible pun). You probably want to be in first person and set the gun to auto use. This can be done by right clicking, going to the options (not the game options) and selecting it.



Ex:​





Sweat Rates​

Normal Sweat rate currently is .5 and you should try hard never to sell under .5. This basically means the rate per 100 sweat. So .50 pec per 100 sweat.





Normal = .5

Cheap = .45, .4 (Not advised ever to go under .4, ever!)​





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Going to The Swamp Camp​

These directions will take you to the Swamp Camp, a major sweating area. It's north of the teleporter. You should see a ramp and two turrets (Large Guns). Go up the mountain and you should continue going past the mall and people, if anyone's there. Go north and follow the road. At the end of the road you will find the swamp camp. Here people can usually help you, but you should sweat in groups. Like I said before dying isn't bad as it gives you skills. Don't worry you wont lose any items.


Important Item Info​




Societies​

Societies or Soc's, are like guilds in other games. They are a group of people trying to achieve a common goal or just trying to have a nice group set up for fun and events. Its great to join one. One of the most popular I've seen around are the NBK and the current Soc I'm in is the EU Outcasts.





Jobs and Things to Do​

These are all the current jobs and proffesions that are available in Calypso.


Events​

There are several different events run by different people. An example would be paying 1 ped for a ticket at an event boothand participate in the event. Lets say you win, then you would get the prize if there is one. Or maybe the event isn't set up at a booth it's just happening. You can search the forum for events. I just recently went to a trivia event that just happened to start in the Swamp Camp. So remember events can be anywhere, just keep a look out.


TP Runs​

In Calypso there are several teleporters. These teleporters can transport you to other teleporters that you've been to. You also may want to collect these just for quick transportation or enjoyment. They look like this.

Ex:​

In several societies and events, they require you to go and get all the different teleporters so you have them and can travel freely across the world.


Mining​

Mining is one of the most popular activities, the most is hunting. Mining is the process of taking bombs and running all over the place dropping them. Then you hope you find some kind of cool rock's or liquid. For There are two types of mining...



Enmatter​



Ore​

Enmatter is usually better for newbs. All the starter mining items can be bought at the Trade Terminal. The starting items will all need to be all bought, so you will need all the matching items for the set. Don't buy two items from two different types of mining, for example dont buy enmatter seeker and an ore extractor. Mining usually has very large profits. Its expensive, but usually worth it. Enmatter is cheaper, but usually has less of a payout. Ore is expensive, but has a higher payout. Oh, and you can mine almost anywhere throughout Calypso. In jungles, deserts, or even shallow water! Just remember that you shouldn't waste your supplies. So dont drop 2 bombs in the same place, run quite a bit and then drop another. Using the radar circle might help a bit.




Hunting​

Well you need to buy the proper equiptment to find and hunt animals/mobs throughout Calypso or more basically taking a cool gun and blowing stuff up. The best starter gun is the Solomate Opalo which can be bought at any Trade Terminal. You will also need ammo for it which can also be bought there. The best newb animals to hunt are Exarosaurs, Saibakumas, or maybe some Daikibas which are all found very close to Port Atlantis (Where you Start). Once you kill something, you can loot it by right-clicking it and selecting the loot option. Your goal in hunting is to at least make enough to cover the decay on your weapon (Your weapon can be repaired) and to pay for the ammo. Your other goal is gaining skills which are also very helpfull.



Crafting​

Crafting is an activity where you take blueprints/blueprint book, materials, and put them in a machine. For example lets say you want to make sheet metal (A good thing to start with). You would get it's blueprint and the blueprint book that it goes into. At this point you get the materials and put them into a machine. Then depending on your sucess rating something may come out. The outcome can be one of three possibilities. You could be succesfull and make the object, you could be almost succesfull and get some materials back, or you could fail and get nothing.spaceThis can then be sold for cash. Blueprints that have better quality rating give you a better chance of success when creating something. The better the quality the better and the more expensive it is. You want to generally craft things that have high trade mark-ups so you can sell them at high rates.



Owning Land and Appartments​

This is for when you become a lot richer or have a lot of money to deposit. You can buy land or an appartment from its owner or buy it on the auction. Land has a tax on it, and when people hunt or mine there you get money. You can also put mobs on it for a big or little price depending on the animals. However land is very expensive, just look at Crystal Palace!



Shops and Trading​


Trading and Shop Ownership are important parts of Calypso. Trading, is basically where you buy something cheap and sell it for a profit. Try to do this with popular items and not to buy to high or sell too high or low. Shops are basically a bigger way to trade, except they're always there to buy from. Although when you have a shop you have to pay rent! It's also one of the more expensive things in Calypso. You'll probably want to look this up after you get started.


FAQ and Usefull Sites​

Common Terms​

PED- Project Entropia Dollars (Money)
PEC- Project Entropia Cents
Mob- Animal/Monster/Enemy
Virbrant Sweat/Sweat- Look Under Sweat in Guide
PA- Port Atlantis
Sweat Camp- The Swamp Camp north of Port Atlantis
TI- Treasure Island, a big island in Entropia.​

FAQ​
These are some of the questions I get asked by noobs, A LOT!

1. How do I Make Money?space- Well you can find many people to help you trade, sweat, or you can just deposit. You can also walk around the world looking for fruit or dung (Not So Exciting).

2. How do I Play In First Person?space- Zoom in your mouse weel.

3. How do I trade?space- Right click someone and then select private trade.

4.Where do I sell my sweat?space- You can sell your sweat to people. Usually this is done at a rate of .5, so .50 pec per 100 bottles.

Useful Sites​

My Two Pec's- Has all the rates and percentages of items in Calypso.
Entropia Forrum- The official forums.
My Blog :)- My blog if you want to visit.

(What do you guys think, I need feedback on this)
P.S Not Everything is done

Thanks for reading, remember to vote for me in the contest when its published. When it is I'll post a link.
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Still shocked that something similiar is not standard in the EU client download for new players, but that's why initiatives like yours here are necessary. +rep
 
Wow Thanks

Thanks I'll finish the pictures soon and re-edit.
 
Bah I missed one :laugh:

This is a point of debate amongst the gaming community but when referring to a new player use the term NEWB rather than NOOB.

Most would agree that the term NOOB is actually a negative term relating more to a player with poor personality/conduct rather than length of playing. However, this is contextual and the point comes across the same in a guide so this is up to you ;)
 
Thank you for putting the time in to write an updated guide.

:D

Kosmos
 
Add a small pharagraph about fruit, stones and dung.

Yellow dot on radar is a teammate.
 
Pepto said:
Bah I missed one :laugh:

This is a point of debate amongst the gaming community but when referring to a new player use the term NEWB rather than NOOB.

Most would agree that the term NOOB is actually a negative term relating more to a player with poor personality/conduct rather than length of playing. However, this is contextual and the point comes across the same in a guide so this is up to you ;)
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... agree, the word 'noob' is disrespectful in many others MMORPG
i like newcomer, or new player ;)

thanks
Baalat
 
Is mytwopecs even updated anymore? PEAuction and C.O.R.E. might be better sites to point people for resource prices.
 
Wow

Pepto said:
Red is info or corrections/suggestions. Green indicates a deletion.

Still shocked that something similiar is not standard in the EU client download for new players, but that's why initiatives like yours here are necessary. +rep
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Im adding your name as an edditor and if this wins the contest some peds may be floating your way. :wtg:
 
Added Updates Page Under Post

Added updates!
 
Hmmm

Ok anything else needs to be added? Ill try to get some more screen shots up.
 
Hmmm

Needs to be finished soon, any last suggestions?
 
blackhawk77g said:
Im adding your name as an edditor and if this wins the contest some peds may be floating your way. :wtg:
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Man, bribing people now are ye? You must really want that contest. :laugh:

Well, I will do my best to give you a run for any tactics you employ :cool:
 
Only because you are asking for suggestions, but I believe that the correct spelling is Sabakuma.

Other than that great guide.
 
Thanks

Well its time to finish it up.
 
Finaly update!

Final update. Last minute suggestions!
 
really work in neas after the starting phase at swamp camp !! its more profiting after us noobs got some skills in dodge and the such .. maybe 2-4 days swamp camp then try get escort to neas .. more profit.. build for first cycle .. then etc ^^

good guide otherwise +
 
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Bump/ Vote for my guide?
 
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