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starting at about cl 25 goto farthern camp in rag. the free spacers are non-aggro,and run from about cl25-cl47. easy to kite above your cl, and decent combat exp.

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this is intended for new players intrested in building a tt. it is in no way a perfect order of steps, but just some info to get you going. any of you high level tt's out there please point out anything i should change, or whatever i left out. if you find this usefull, then please post some feedback(positive or negitive) and i can write part 2 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ greetings here is a basic tutorial to get you started playing a Terran Trader. i've found the tt to be a most enjoyable toon to play. this is a good choice for those who like solo play because the tt can recharge his own shield as well as repair his own hull. as the trader gains levels, his skills improve and he becomes a sought out addition to any group. the trader specializes in useing missles as his primary weapon. as the trader progresses, he will learn the use of the technique known as "kiteing". the method of kiteing is really simple, but you will develope your own kiteing style,which is also fun and enjoyable. another cool aspect of the tt is his build skills. it is quite usefull to build your own weapons,ammo or even shields or engines. the terran trader is always requested to build for other players as well, makeing him very popular! the trader also can use the negotiate skill which will make him able to buy items at a reduced rate or sell items at a slightly higher profit.Ka-chaaaa! ok lets get going............ first you need to create a toon 1 select an empty char. slot 2 select terran, then tradesman, hit next 3 adjust your face, clothes and be creative 4 decorate your ship,then give your ship a name(s.s. minnow e.g.) when you are done hit next 5 now you must give your toon a name (it can be anything,however there tos rules you must follow. nothing sexist,raceist,profane you get the idea) 6 now select the "sunrise" galaxy and play game. woot! were in!! (note :: if the name you chose is taken, then you must chose a different name, or alter the spelling) the tt starts in loki station in high earth. if you open the char info. screen now , you will see a basic noob toon with starter gear(pathetic). there are only 2 npcs (non-player character) here and talking to holly flanders(ned's cousin) will get you nothing yet, so talk to louden macewen. louden offers 5 opitons in the talk tree and you may chose as you wish but for this tutorial , i chose reactor leak... at this point , i sugguest to explore the sector by warping to each nav point that looks like "?" (question mark) the first time you leave the station there are 7 places to click. earth and 6 navs. travel to them all . as you warp around you will see new navs pop up, so be sure to hit them all, as well as gates. if you hit everything, your map will not have any "?" and you should have gotten your 1st explore level! well done now... heres a tip to help find hidden navs. press the letter "x" and look at your target window. it might say ecs balor, or something else depending on where you are in the sector. if you hover your mouse pointer oner all the other navs you have found, you will not see ecs balor. this is a hidden nav. now press '''c". this will scroll through other nidden navs.warp to each one you can find for some more explore exp. be sure to press "x" and then "c" at each location as some new ones will pop up as you get closer to them. ok then.... you may have noticed, if you look at your toon's char.info. screen, that you now have 1 skill point or sp. if you look at your skills list some of the skills have a flashing green triangle. these are skills you may spend your 1sp to upgrade. now.. heres where you must plan ahead a bit because you will not earn enough sp to upgrade every skill all the way, heres what i recommend,but you may play your toon anyway that makes you happy. this is only my opinion and others will likely say different slightly, but i would list the priority of skills like this... 1 shield tech-this is how high/strong a shield you can equip. this helps you stay alive 2 reactor tech- like shield the strenght/power of your reactor will keep your shield/weapons up and running 3 missle tech- your missle weapons. the higher the better but after #1 and #2 as we get a bit higher level, we'll talk about devices,engines and building ok now back to the mission...... i chose reactor leak first because there is no fighting yet and the mission is short (if you know where to look) (i have seen this question in new player chat alot and my 1st time i could not find the volitile ship either) after looking and asking i found the ship and here it is goto the waste disposal station as directed in step 1, now goto salvage station 1 . point your ship almost due west but add a little north>), right click the target window(this will make you have nothing targeted) this is called free warping. this drains your reactor quickly on a low lvl toon, but later with the navigate skill, the proper eng/device combo, and a fat reactor , a tt can freewarp all day. nice! now hit warp and watch your ship head west. look for the volitile ship about 9.5 k away from salvage station 1( heres the cords:-85.05,-39.70,.08) once you find this, return to loki station and talk to louden again. mission complete and 2500 credits woot! you can use these credits to purchase some trade goods for the next mission,also louden gives you a new shield . sweet! ok then.. open the skills window and upgrade your shield tech. then , open the inventory window and select the "equip" tab.drag and drop the new shield into your ship's shield slot. now your ship has 108 point shield ,instead of 50. soon we will do some combat and this will really help. ok at this point, talk to louden again and accept the " recruitment:status report" mission as well as the "supplys needed" mission. we will complete 2 missions and gain some more explore exp at the same time. go ahead and leave the station. open the map and you can see 2 green gates. 1 to earth and 1 to tau ceti. lets goto tau ceti first,click the tau ceti gate and then warp. go through the gate and gain some nice explore exp. re-open the map in new edinburg and notice the green question mark, this is somerled station, the location of lady dewinter, who is needed for our mission. warp to it. then dock. inside , you will find dewinter( a very happy and friendly npc)(not!). talk to her and the mission will advance.dewinter refers you to her assistant who is nearby. talk to him.he shreds the report and sends you on your way, and the mission advances.now it says to return to louden. before that though, here is another sector to explore! this new sector is a bit tougher than high earth and there are mobs that will attack you on sight! explore carefully and dont forget about the press "x" and "c" tip to find hidden navs. also watch for red icons on your radar or in plain sight when you stop at a nav.you will have a few seconds to reorient on the next nav but mobs will shoot at you if they see you. at this stage, try to avoid getting hit as your shield is a starter shield and wont take much damage. in the process of exploreing new edinburg you will hit another explorer level. ding!! heres a couple of tips: as you expore any sector your map gets bigger than the window its in, so place the pointer on the map and roll the mousewheel. this will zoom in and out on the map and you can see the whole map. you may right click and drag the mouse and this will do the same thing. also, some might find it helpful to press shift and pull the mouse toward yourself(down). this zooms your ship view in and out and gives you a bigger view around your ship. after exploreing new edinburg, return to louden in high earth and complete the mission. louden gets upset but the mission completes and bam! 5k trade exp! now head to earth,explore the sector, and you can purchase the o2 canisters and the terran insignias from the vendor with the green flags. you will need 5 of each. look for the vendor named "lenorn listor" . when you have the needed items , return to high earth and speak to louden yet again. when you turn you items ,you recieve 5k trade exp,2.5k explore exp. and 5k creedits. very nice!! next we will do the "revenge in triplicate" mission, which is basically the same as before.warp to tau ceti,goto sommerled station, talk to dewinter, she sends you to macgregor, he upadtes, return to louden for another nice reward. now we are cooking!!! so.... i suspect you are getting tired of warping and exploreing and are ready for some combat so talk to louden and accept the "relentless drones" mission. now a few tips about combat,be prepared to die. its no fun to get killed and it can become costly, but it is inevitable,so if you die just try again. at first the mobs are easy but as you progress they will get outright mean. so just remember this is only a game.8) if you get into trouble, just right click the target window and hit "q" and you will freewarp away from the battle. this will give you time to recharge shields, patch your hull, or anything else needed. if the mobs you want to kill are just to hard,you can try useing the new player channel to find a group to join or start your own group.you will need to tell to other players your combat level(cl), or maybe your overall level (ol). most people playing enb are very nice and will help out new players happily. also, you will notice on your hotbar, in the #4 slot is the recharge shield skill.this is a lifesaver.if you see you are getting low on shield, press #4 and your shield will recharge. this uses some reactor power so keep an eye on both. now at first the tt will use beam weapons as that it what he starts with, but we will move to missle weapons as fast as we can. when you are cl 0 you will need to press the fire button repeatedly to get your weapon to fire. but when you are cl1 your weapon will fire on its own after your first shot. ok then... lets go kill!!!! be sure you new shield is equipped. and head to nav waste disposal station.look around and find some scuttlebug larvae(0). target 1 and press #1 key. you will see a little clock on the weapon icon and it takes some time for your weapon to reload . press fire(#1) again and take out the mob. if your weapon won't fire you are most likely out of range.there is a red circle in the weapon icon that will turn green when you are in range. another problem might be ,useing a beam weapon, you must be faceing the target, almost directly. another handy item is the "e" key. this shortcut will target the nearest enemy, but you will have to face it to get the weapon to fire. be sure to click to "loot" icon after each kill.collect the loot and do it again. you can sell the loot for some more credits and trade exp later. continue this untill you gain a combat level or your hull gets full of loot. when you reach level 1 combat, move over to salvage station 4 and kill the level 1 mobs there. again gain a level or fill your hull. here your weapon will fire continously, after 1 press of fire. when you reach lvl 2 cl , move to salvage station 6 and complete your mission of killing the 7 mobs there. when thats done return to louden for a nice reward.3500 of each combat,explore,and trade exp plus 2500 credits!! ka-boom!!! now sell off all the drops to the green vendor. on my testnoob to write this ,i got 1.6 trade levels out of selling everything off. this makes my test toon ol8, with cl 2,el 4,tl,2. we just need 2 more levels in anything to get ol10 and get the first hull upgrade. cool! at this time, i recommend we upgrade the reactor, so put 1 sp into reactor tech. then look at a new reactor here at loki. the vendor here only offers 1 new reactor so i will buy and equip it. same with the engine.1sp in eng. tech 1 new eng.equiped.also at this time i will upgrade the shield recharge skill, as it is the best defence i can use for now. you may have tried to sell the old starter gear, but the vendor won't buy it back! it must be junk!! so, you can do whatever you want but i will just destroy it as its just takeing up important cargo space. just drag it out of the hold and click yes to desrtoy. im just going to upgrade everything here but you may want to wait untill you are at another station to see a bigger selection. ok now..... lets touch on devices. we have 2 empty device slots and they need filling. loki station offers 1 cool device ,but earth or sommerled offer a larger selection we can look here at loki station and purchase a roadrunner+ .buy 1 and equip it .this will improve the warpspeed of the ship. after all this upgradeing, we are ready to go back out and get those next 2 levels. so get to it!! im going to go back out to salvage station 6 and finish a combat level , then sell all the loot. this should be enough to make the 2 levels. when you reach overall level 10 then go talk to lounden again and he will give you the promotion mission which will take you the rest of the game to complete. first , warp out to nav salvage station 6 and kill at least 5 more drones. then return to louden. he sends you out to the infinitycorps shipyard in tau ceti. when you get to tau ceti look in the north for the shipyard. warp out to it but be carefull there as some l5 chavaz are there. talk to the yard quickly then goto sommerled. congratulations!! now we will go to see louden 1 more time and learn about missles. as you can see i've left some other missions from louden for you to figure out on your own. also, some missions are repeatable, so you can do them again if you so chose. when you see louden chose "a time to kill" mission. this one will get you your missle skill and a new launcher to boot! louden sends you back to earth to purchase an ML-X4 orb weaver rmissle launcher. and some ML-X4 ammo for it so go get them. they will be found the the red-flagged weapon vendor. louden asked for a stack of ammo so click buy stack. then warp back to louden. remember those chavez at the shipyard in tau ceti?? he wants you to go kill 2 of them. this won't be a problem with that new ml,so upgrade your missle tech skill, then equip it and then load the ammo by dragging it onto the launcher. then head out to the shipyard. heres a tip:: stop warping about 10k out from the shipyard,then impulse in toward it. this way you can see the mobs and chose a path where they wont gang up on you. these mobs are aggro(aggressive) and will hunt you when you get close enough. becarefull and use your shield recharge skill(hotkey #4) got it done?? sweet!! ok so....... that about covers it for the basic guide to become a master terran trader.i hope this info is useful and helpfull. please send all donations to....... lol please lemme know if any of this has helped anyone and if so i will write part 2 rock on and fly well

i dont know what good i could offer, but i would like to listen to the bigwigs. i would go depending on time as well

sounds great! it would be cool to see

ok cool ill finish this one for tt and get some feedback if it looks good ill do one for general new players thanks for the replys

so does this mean dont write one as im a good way into it. i have been pretty basic,from a new player point of view. and strictly tt based. either way lemme know

i hereby volenteer to write a tt guide. its the only one i know about. ill try to do it soon. (cringes)

umm.. i think nanobots are at fenris station in fenris ,aragoth

wow!! cdel you rock the f5 thing works great thanks man!!

this thread will get some differing views i suspect my te used all the oguns through l5, then at 6 i built/aquirred some model b type. in 1 more combat lvl i will use model a type. i know somw will recommened using claim jumpers reward and this is a good ml,the problem is it only drops from belter bob in vc and is harder to aquire. as for berthas,i've never used them but they look nice. the problem there is some ammo comps are drop only,so harder to keep in stock unless you have a comp builder buddy i sugguest to try them all and use what you like i bet some other te players will say something different have fun

i have found that when i go up 10-12 levels, i go back and change background, then delete the old sigs, copy and paste new sig code in its place, then save changes. then relog into forums and most of the time it is updated. i've never seen it just update itself hope that helps

hey thanks for the replys (sharpens my pen.........doh)

first, let me say great job guys(/girls) for putting this all togeather.i was told about this game a few years back but never played,untill my b.i.l. enforced recreation on me. now im really enjoying it. thanks from my wife as well 8) i would like to sugguest a way to know if an item/wep/shield.(etc.) is on my current build list. maybe a red check or something on the item when it is looted to indicate yes its on my list or nope its not. i have no idea how hard this would be to code or implement, but i bet most of the builders out there would love this feature. maybe a pop up list would be easier to implement and i could just check the item to the list. how about a keyboard hotkey not in use to be assigned to this feature. maybe this is asking alot and im sure other concerns are more pressing, but i feel this would be a great feature. here again, just a sugguestion thank you lemme know what you guys think

lmao! @last post brilliant!!!!!

welcome 8) i dont know "live" but this game rocks! still some bugs but a fun game experience great community have fun

thanks for yer replies ' keep 'em coming

greetings all please give yer opinion on what you thought about the raid on sunday i think a 1-10 would be good. 1=canal water, 10=a blast i myself would give a 7. i died a few times(cl30 no wonder 8)),i had bad lag, but overall i had fun.i will do it again anytime. i think so many ppl in 1 sector might have been a cause of the lag, but still fun. i guess a 0 if you did not participate. fly safe 8) ty

maybe try xp mode?? you have prolly tried everything i can think of. but dont give up man theres some guys here that can work it out talk to slayerman(he's the king!)

greetings all beyonders im just curious please... what is the difference between a say,150% item(it can be anything pm), and a 175%item??? does a 200% item get any bonus for being 200%?? is there a difference between a 199% and 200%?? is there a formula to figure it so i could know what the difference is?? thanks for yer time reading this

wow! it must be fun to play enb on THAT screen!! nice 8)

get yer wife/gf to create a female char. let her pick the hair/clothes and decorate the ship. then show her how cool her char looks in game,complementing her choices(nice butt choice dear) then set up her own computer with enb,letting her chose her own time to play soon she will be asking questions about building/mining.... yer in like flint

LMAO!!!! well done vasi

its a CONSPIRICY of wives!!! somehow they all got togeather and put the CURSE on the server. now i gotta change the oil on her car(whaaaa) (oh btw honey, that lawn mower hasnt run since last summer, could you look at that too) holds head in hands..........