I’ve set up some in-game help channels that people might find useful.
With the exception of the Disabled Players Lounge, all the channels have MOTDs (Message Of The Day, a fixed piece of creator-definable text that appears when you log into the channel) with useful info that you can click on. I’d have liked to include more links but because there’s a 4000 character limit (including the embedded HTML) I’ve had to cherry-pick what’s included.
Either way, I hope you find them useful.
The channels are:
Rookie Infopedia
A rookie orientated info channel with links to help you get established in the game.
Pilot Infopedia
A companion channel to Rookie Infopedia with more links and helpful stuff but for more experienced pilots.
Overview Encyclopedia
A listings channel with loads of differnt overview channels and overview set-ups.
Fittings Encyclopedia
A listings channel with loads of differnt ship fit channels.
Disabled Players Lounge
A safe non-judgemental space for disabled pilots.
Hello, @Mu_ad_Diib I don’t have experience with in game channels. Are there players in them to chat with? The ones you made.
The Help and Rookie channels with all those people in them are sort of intimidating.
I tried to find what MOTDs are but I am not sure of the results. Is it Message of the Day or Match of the Day or?
Thank you.
Message of the day. When you join like rookie help or some other channel or maybe your corp channel, its the first text that pops up, which you can reload in settings to show again
I’m kinda surprised it’s not in the EVE Glossary… The MotD is not just set for one day, it can be changed any time and also be left unchanged for years. It’s just the top of a chat channel, including helpful links and news.
Mostly because the 4000 character limit means there’s a finite number of channel links, hyperlinks and text that you can include in the MOTD.
In terms of spamming, that wasn’t my intention and I’m sorry if it came across that way. My heroes in EVE are people like @Mike_Azariah and so I try to be a force for good in the game. The channels are just an extension of this is the same way that the Revised EVE Activities & Careers Chart Project is.
If you’re new to the game like you are, please don’t be intimidated, Rookie Help Chat especially, is a really friendly channel and there are loads of players like me who will regularly help newbies and rookies out with all kinds of questions.
My apologies, I should have spelt it out in the original message: Message Of The Day. Basically a fixed bit of text that the channel creator can set to include normal text, hyperlinks, channel links and links to items in the game. Most of the channels that you’ll find use it to spell out rules and so on, or links as in mine.
I try not to but I don’t like the idea that it’s live with so many people. I was called bad things before in another game chat and it doesn’t feel nice.
I did ask a question in Rookie chat before ( I can’t remember what it was ) and it went ok. I remember Gerard Amatin reply to me. He was nice about what could have been a stupid question.
Oh and you have mail, sir, lol
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That generally doesn’t happen here.
We will batter the life out of each other and use slimey, underhanded tactics to kill and disadvantage each other, but we generally do not resort to insults in chat.
That’s really crap that people were horrible to you in that ‘other’ game (having played EVE for almost more years than I can remember now, I do seem to remember other games exist, but it’s all a bit fuzzy … LOL).
Like @Akkar_Kardashev said before me though, I think in EVE it’s much more friendly, at least in the chat channels and forums.
For what it’s worth, in both the in-game help channels and here in the forum, there are player volunteer moderators called ISDs (it stands for Interstellar Services Department). The ISDs are quite proactive and take a pretty poor view of people abusing, tricking or being otherwise nefarious with rookies. Where necessary, as far as I know, they go as far as kicking or banning people who do this from the help channels and forums.
Simplified: I think you’ll be okay.
This is not to say that there aren’t some toxic people in this game, there really are (and I’ve dealt with some of this toxicity in my time) and there are people, in both channels and here that I’ve blocked because of this. It’s just not worth your mental health to put up with haters.
If you do need to block people, it’s pretty straightforward, but if you have any problems please give me a shout in-game and I’ll happily talk you through it.
But try not to worry, like @Akkar_Kardashev said, we really do enthusiastically kill and disadvantage each other in EVE but most of us are quite polite while doing this. LOL
There are (almost) no stupid questions in Rookie help chat, so I find it best to just answer questions as well as possible - even if someone is just joking around or pretending to be new many other rookies are reading the chat and can learn something too!
I’ve got the same question!
Wouldn’t it be better to focus on promoting use of a single channel at a time?
Channels are only as useful as the info and people within and by spreading people who read this post across multiple channels I fear they each will populate less than if it were one single channel.
Personally I don’t like having too many channels open at once so I might join one linked channel to see if it’s useful. 5 channels? I skip.
Why not do what I’ve seen others did in the past: use interlinked character bios to create an in-game encyclopedia or outbound link database (or even a roleplay story), maybe have a corp for the characters that acts as the face and its corp description the first and main page which links to other specific topics thus character bios.
You can link the corp or main page character in the MotD of one single channel (or even all of them if you want to have many channels still) and still have technically unlimited text space (as many characters you are willing to make and as alphas are free it costs nothing).
I agree one channel would be more suitable and you can still achieve the same or even more links and text by using corp description(s) and character bios.
Hey! Hello Gerard! Good to see you on here
I didn’t know that my question was answered by a help pro. Thank you very much for helping.
I read in this forum that some players are tired of answering noob questions. Some of them say if a noob didn’t do the tutorial then he/she should be locked out of the Help channel. But sometimes some things have to be clarified even when the tutorial was done. Not everyone has 150 IQ. Mine is around 80.
When did people start to be so inconsiderate of others?
Luckily Rookie Help Chat is optional after 30 days, so whenever someone is not in the mood of answering newbie questions they can simply leave that channel.
I can see where they’re coming from. If a newbie assumes they can play this game without doing the tutorial they shouldn’t come to the help channel with questions that would have been answered by doing the tutorial.
Locking new characters out of the help channel if they haven’t done the tutorial is not a good solution though. Many people will already have questions while still doing the tutorial.
And even someone who makes new forum alt characters every once in a while and skips the tutorial because they have already done the tutorial other characters should still be able to ask questions in the help chat if you ask me.
