Lefty
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- Mar 5, 2009
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- Billy's Spaceship Afterworld
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- Calypso Rescue Team
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- Medb Lefty Lucy
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Erm. make that, great hunting opportunities to the SW of Anok.
Also:
I am fresh off the boat myself.
These days, it's hard to get far in this game without the scammers, ripoff artists, resellers, freaks and for-profit mentors scooping the new arrival up.
I don't mind most of those, but it is relevant here because one of the favorite forms of recruitment is a run to Neas. The offerer usually bills it as "THE place to gather Sweat".
Fresh off the boat, most of us are welcomed into Entropia by being told to sweat to get money for weapons, escorted to SC or Neas, and then more or less abandoned there.
On my first visit to Neas, what I encountered was an area where everything was pitched at too high a skill level for me, making it a thoroughly miserable experience.
On my first visit to Swamp Camp, my experience was basically "New here? Cool! Here, sweat til you drop and sell me your sweat at .40!"
Fortunately, I have a very good mentor, as well as having watched a friend play for a few months before I joined. As of this writing, I have yet to sell a single bottle of sweat; however, my Evade is already up to 160
... mostly from sweating at Swamp Camp.
I only discovered Anok when 7up came to SC to publicize it. So far, the hunting is sweet and the people are fun
All in all, my first recommendation to someone who has arrived on calypso less than an hour ago is: Go NW to Swamp Camp, see how much skill you can get there, ignore the freaks, and hope for heals. After running a couple of TP runs to Anok, I can say that 80% of those fresh off the boat don't have the patience for the run, and 15% will get to Anok using only its coords. Granted, those 15% have Successful Entropian written all over them, but based on Anok's subjective distance from PA, I recommend new arrivals to go to Swamp Camp, and try to avoid getting scammed there. Unless a wormhole is used: a wormhole to Anok would be a fantastic gift to a newb!
Still sweating it,
Lefty
Erm. make that, great hunting opportunities to the SW of Anok.
Also:
I am fresh off the boat myself.
These days, it's hard to get far in this game without the scammers, ripoff artists, resellers, freaks and for-profit mentors scooping the new arrival up.
I don't mind most of those, but it is relevant here because one of the favorite forms of recruitment is a run to Neas. The offerer usually bills it as "THE place to gather Sweat".
Fresh off the boat, most of us are welcomed into Entropia by being told to sweat to get money for weapons, escorted to SC or Neas, and then more or less abandoned there.
On my first visit to Neas, what I encountered was an area where everything was pitched at too high a skill level for me, making it a thoroughly miserable experience.
On my first visit to Swamp Camp, my experience was basically "New here? Cool! Here, sweat til you drop and sell me your sweat at .40!"
Fortunately, I have a very good mentor, as well as having watched a friend play for a few months before I joined. As of this writing, I have yet to sell a single bottle of sweat; however, my Evade is already up to 160
... mostly from sweating at Swamp Camp.I only discovered Anok when 7up came to SC to publicize it. So far, the hunting is sweet and the people are fun
All in all, my first recommendation to someone who has arrived on calypso less than an hour ago is: Go NW to Swamp Camp, see how much skill you can get there, ignore the freaks, and hope for heals. After running a couple of TP runs to Anok, I can say that 80% of those fresh off the boat don't have the patience for the run, and 15% will get to Anok using only its coords. Granted, those 15% have Successful Entropian written all over them, but based on Anok's subjective distance from PA, I recommend new arrivals to go to Swamp Camp, and try to avoid getting scammed there. Unless a wormhole is used: a wormhole to Anok would be a fantastic gift to a newb!
Still sweating it,
Lefty
