Tutorial for New Players by Fuega. Part 3

Tutorial for New Players of Entropia Universe - Planet Calypso.
Part 3. Orientation and Sweating - first week Goals

Part 3. Orientation and Sweating - first week Goals

• Sign up on Planet Calypso Forum and Entropedia.
• Set up your quick keys and screen icons.
• Talk to all the NPC's with missions in Port Atlantis.
• Join a Society and make friends.
• Collect five teleporters.
• Gather 500 vibrant sweat.
• Complete first 3 missions there.

First you will need to make an account here on Planet Calypso Forum. If you have a question that I don't answer here, there is going to be an answer there. *1* Second, visit www.entropedia.info and join there too. It is the best website for stats on everything in this game. Also be sure to bookmark/favorite those links in your browser, you will visit them alot.

There are a few bad people that play all online games. If you run into someone that you think is a scammer, usually because they try to trade with you without asking first, you can click the right mouse button on any item in the trade window or your inventory, and look up what the going market value for that item is, or you could research the price on Entropedia. There is also a tutorial for avoiding scammers at: [TODO]
Fortunately 99.9% of all the players out there are decent people.

Hit the keys I, Y, L, and G ("I" for inventory, "Y" for actions, "L" for editing, and "G" for keyboard setup), and play with editing your desktop icons and F1-F9 shortcut bars to what works best for you. You can drag actions or items to just about any key on your keyboard and/or create icons on your display. I usually place an item on one of my number keys and as a icon on my display. I keep my weapon hotkeys on my F1 bar, my emotes and dances on my F2 bar, and my mining tools on my F5 bar. In all my setups I open my Action Library and put "Unequip Tool" on my End key and "Toggle Auto-Use Tool" on my Insert Key, but you can use a different key if you like.

You can change between 1st and 3rd person views by hitting the number 5 on your number pad, or scrolling in and out with your mouse wheel. Use the left mouse button to select what you want to target for hunting or sweating. Get quick at hitting the space bar, to change between aiming and the pointer for
selecting things. You move your avatar by using W for walking while using your mouse to steer. Also use Q to change betweens walking and running, S to back up, E to jump, and A and D to straife. Alternately you can use your mouse to move and steer by holding down both right and left mouse buttons. The camera angle can be controlled by holding down the middle mouse button/scroll wheel and moving your mouse.

Your first week or two in game will be absolutely free, no ped needed.

When you arrived at Port Atlantis the first person you should have talked to was the Immigration Official, who would have marked on your map all the missions in Port Atlantis. Your first task will be to do as many of the missions in Port Atlantis as you can. Most of them you just have to go talk to someone, but a couple of them are hard, and you can wait and do those later.

Your next task will be to sweat the Puny mobs around Port Atlantis. Collecting Vibrant Sweat and selling it to other players can be a way to play this game without having to deposit. To collect vibrant sweat, equip your VSE Mk1 and aim it at an animal and activate. Hopefully you put it on a number key or an icon on your screen along with "Toggle Auto-Use Tool".

You can sweat or hunt in the first person or third person views. In the first person, move close enough to the animal, aim your crosshairs on the animal, and activate your device by left clicking or hitting the number
key you put it on. In the third person, you click on the animal once to select it and then double-click on the animal to auto-move to the right location and begin sweating. Or you can also use the left mouse button to drag a mobs health bar onto your screen. And if you have already equiped your Mk1, you can then right click on its health bar and select "Use Tool" to auto-move to the right distance and start sweating.
I usually hunt from the first person view, but I move to position in the third person, and I drag the name/health tab from the mob onto my screen to keep track of its health while killing it and to loot it easier. And I use just the right mouse button to shoot and loot it so it doesn't waste ammo if I am off aim.

Your goal is to collect 500 Vibrant sweat. That may take a while, but it is worth it to get the associated skills. I have collected over 20000 sweat personally. Afterwards you can sell your sweat, or you can save it for when you get into mind force skills. If you do sell it, ask around to be sure to get the best price you can.
If you want a change of scenery, the other place that lots of people sweat is at Nea's Place on Amethera. I actually prefer sweating there. At Swamp Camp and Nea's Place there are often people there who skill on healing. Say "thank you" if someone gives you a free heal.

Your next task is to start adding teleporters {TP} to your map, and at the same time learn how to avoid getting attacked, by keeping the dangerous monsters {mobs} out of your inner radar circle.
Go to Entropedia and click on Locations, to get a map of all the TP sites.

You don't actually have to run all the way to each teleporter, once you get near enough, and are in that TP's revival area, you can just die and you will revive near the TP. But make sure that you actually go to the TP and get the message that it has been added to your map.
Avoid the red PVP areas in the middle of the map, you will die there. If you need to get to the other side, run around it or use TP's to get around it.

If things get difficult, generally, staying to the rivers and oceans are safer. It may take longer, but you avoid most monsters. And for some unknown reason, you can breath underwater but most mobs can't, so you can drown them. Should you get stuck somewhere contact the nice people at www.euforces.com for a rescue. After you finish getting all the tp's on the Eudoria continent, you should do the Amathera continent also. If I had to pick the most important locations for beginners it would be Port Atlantis, then Nea's Place for sweating, then Twin Peaks for trading, then Fort Argus for more Snablesnot hunting, and all the Malls in game.

TP running can be frustrating if you let it, or if you take your time and enjoy the sights it can be fun. Remember, you may have to run way out of your way to get around dangerous groups of mobs. Enjoy the challenge, and don't worry about dying. You don't loose anything when you die, you just get sent to the nearest Revival Terminal.

If you have not done so yet, it is a good time to start looking for a Society. Check out a Society Terminal. The thing that I enjoy most about EU is chatting with friends. It is the best part of this game.

Author: Fuega
Source: PCF