First Day Guide
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Guide for the Really New Player
OK, so you’re logged in, you’ve created your character and your character has spawned into the game. This section is to help the new player get started by answering the two basic questions: “What do I do now?” and “How do I do something?”
What do I do now?
1. Move. Left click on the floor. You will see a “traffic cone” object appear and your character should move to that spot. Or you can use the A, W and D keys to move. 2. If you have lag problems, try to leave the immediate spawn-in area. Go down one of the corridors. You may have to go 3 or 4 corridors away for the lag to reduce. For the moment, don’t worry about where you are, just leave the immediate area if you have lag problems. 3. On the left of your screen are buttons, left click the top two: when you hover your cursor over them, one is called Equipped Items and looks like a hand holding a wrench, and the other is called Assets and is your inventory of items. 4. In Assets you will see your tools. If it's not already pressed, press the left most button showing a wrench across the top of the Assets window to see your tools. Left click one of your tools and then press the “eye” button to examine it. There is a symbol or icon in the small window that opens, and the name of the tool. The icon may be an I-beam, a gear, or a strange curved star looking thing, which is the symbol for toxic material. Left click the I beam tool, called ”Basic Build Kit” again, and press the Equip button which looks like a hand holding a small blue box. 5. Now look on the right of your screen. Two small windows popped up when you pressed the Equipped Items button earlier. You will notice in the top one that when you pressed the Equip button earlier, that you put that tool, the “Basic Build Kit” in one of your hands. You can see its tool name, Crowbar, in the list just below the words “Basic Build Kit”. Hover your cursor over the word Crowbar. You will see a yellowish tan line pop up that says “Brute Force”. This is the command line you will press when you are ready to work on a job that needs Brute Force to be applied.
How do I do what I need to do?
1. The first thing you should do is look for a repair job. There are jobs in the initial spawn-in area, and in areas that you may have moved to that are not corridors. They are on the walls, or below the walls on the floor, usually called Service Hatches. Look for jobs by running your cursor over them, that have at least two of the following: an orange-brownish line, a blue line and a purple line. Ignore jobs with a green line or a red line. You don’t have the tools to complete these jobs. These colors, blue, orange and purple represent the types of work that need to be done to repair the item. They also match the three initial tools that you got in Assets when you first spawned in. 2. Find a job that needs at least a purple line so you can use your equipped tool, the crowbar. 3. Target the job. You do this by running over close to the job. When you are there, click the lower end of the job closest to your feet. Two symbols will come up. You want to press the Target button that has the arrows on it. 4. Once you have targeted the job, move your cursor over to the equipped tool. Hover your cursor over the name of the tool, in this case “Crowbar”. When the yellowish tan line with the words “Brute Force” comes up, left click the words. 5. Your character will begin working with the crowbar. 6. Notice that as your character works, the purple color bar of the job is being replaced with a white area in the bar. The white area represents your work at reducing the repair job’s damage. When the white completely fills the status bar, your work with that tool is done. Your character will stop the job shortly, but you can also press the words “Brute Force” to stop work at any time. 7. You may want to stop work before the job is complete as your tools will wear as you use them. You tell if your tool is wearing by looking at the Equipped Dialog box on the right of your screen with the word “crowbar” in it. Right above the small red star is a vertical bar. As you use the tool, the bar will have a narrow vertical line growing upwards in it. The more you use the tool, the higher that narrow vertical line rises in the box. If the vertical line rises to the top, the tool will have broken and will be un-usable. Don’t let it get that high. Tools do self-repair over time and that is why the narrow vertical line drops at times. 8. Finish the job by equipping the tools needed to clear the green and/or blue lines the job has. When the job is complete, the colored lines will disappear, the job graphics will change, and you will no longer be able to Target the job. Your character should stop working. If it does not, click the yellowish command line that appears next to the tool name when you hover your cursor over the tool name.
Reward. When the job is complete, you will receive Access Points. Access Points are the Seed equivalent of money and give you access to things, such as new tools. Open your Assets. At the bottom of the Assets window is the current total of Asset Points you have. Close this window.
Skills. Skills are the learned skills you acquire to help you qualify for harder or specialized jobs. Click the Skills button on the left of your screen. It looks like a piece of paper with a blue ribbon on it. Train your first skill. There is a progress bar that shows how you are progressing in learning that Skill.
That’s it!! You’ve completed your first job, earned your Access Points, and have started training a new skill.
