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[Cybermech]

Welcome New Pilots To The BattleTech Universe

How a lot of the MWO community talk over comms using TeamSpeak TS, a small program for VOIP.
Education Center Channel on public TS is their for new people to get help off pilots who can share experience.
This is a neutral ground for those who want to learn the ins and outs of this game.
If your new, having trouble or just need to ask a question, please join the channel and don't be afraid to speak up.
All vets are also welcomed to help out, either in group work, chatting to new guys or even more personal 1v1 situations.




Education Center Layout:

• Education Center channel: for starting point for new guys or even training groups.
  
• Boot Camp: for new guys who need more 1v1 training.
  
• Training Channels: Anyone can join in here or start a group

Public TS Server Info

Teamspeak 3 Client (ts) download link
Install the Client version either 64bit or 32bit depending on your windows operating system (OS), win7,vista...
Launch TS and go to Connections-Connect, In the box put your MWO name, server address, password.
This will put you onto the server were you can double click to join any channel.


(Comstar EU) Address: eu1.mech-connect.net
Password: hG5!4Dg*


(Comstar NA) Address: na1.mech-connect.net (highest activity)
Password: WordofBlake



Remember guys this is still new enough and it won't be what it needs to be.
Its also community run which means IGP/PGI are not involved, please do not PM about this.
Please Pm me or comment here if you have any feedback.




Rules of Conduct.

• Please be nice and patient to those who are helping you out, they could be busy at the time.
  
• No Recruiting in those channels, this is to ensure a neutral ground for those new to the game.

Useful Links/Guides

First Mech to Purchase

Edited by Cybermech, 21 September 2013 - 10:28 AM.

[DarkraiOfDoom]

"welcome to the aperture science...."

sorry, couldnt help myself

[Cybermech]

had to be done......

[Sears]

Thread needs to be stickied.



it's back haha

Edit: made a new one



i even settled on American English and not real English

Edited by Sears, 01 November 2012 - 10:22 AM.

[Aym]

I gotta get back in there, just don't whine at my [FWLM] tag!

[Obadiah333]

Also some advice for the new guys: If you are dead and spectating, watch someone who has some kills next to their name. It might be a veteran player that you can learn from in spectate mode. See what he does and copy it. There have been many matches where I have dropped solo and been the only person on my team with kills (5+). Sure, players don't often listen to directions from other players and often wander off to get blown apart by other players. Use the time in spectate to take notes of players who are good. Find someone with a chassis that you like and follow them. Do what they do.

There are lots of ways to get better than just getting blown up and running back out there to do it again. Plus, read the forums. Aside from all the posts about unfair this and nerf that, there are plenty of posts with good advice for new players.

[JT Zap]

Bumping.

My first couple of days in Closed Beta I spent in the Education Center. If you are a new player and interested in meeting people and getting involved in the community, go there. Very rarely is there a community dedicated to helping new players more than in MWO. Just checking into the teamspeak server and listening made a difference in how I viewed MWO. Thanks, Cyber for helping to get me going.

[Taryys]

I was hoping that they would pull your thread from the Beta Forums...

[Guide] Playing with Friends, Groups, and Teams

You may want to email some of the mods to see if they can bring your old thread forward or at least give you access to it so you can copy and paste the data here. I have started a thread in the Guides section asking for some threads to brought back. You could post there to. Your MWO Scool thread is one of threads I asked to be resurrected.

[Cybermech]

Sears, on 01 November 2012 - 05:17 AM, said:

Thread needs to be stickied.
It's back haha
Edit: made a new one
I even settled on American English and not real English

Looks good Sears, I'm bad enough at spelling with out having to deal with wrong english too

Aym, on 01 November 2012 - 05:27 AM, said:

I gotta get back in there, just don't whine at my [FWLM] tag!

Good to hear, there can be 1000 FWLM tags.
You guys would be asshats for it though

Obadiah333, on 01 November 2012 - 05:30 AM, said:

Also some advice for the new guys: If you are dead and spectating, watch someone who has some kills next to their name.

+1, you sir are very correct.

JT Zap, on 01 November 2012 - 06:14 AM, said:

My first couple of days in Closed Beta I spent in the Education Center. If you are a new player and interested in meeting people and getting involved in the community, go there.

Thanks Jt, that is great to hear things like that. It meant to help out new people and the proof is in the pudding

Taryys, on 01 November 2012 - 06:30 AM, said:

I was hoping that they would pull your thread from the Beta Forums...

Thanks Taryys, I have to check out the thread.
Have thought about it and most of those links would be worthless.
I do need to do a revamp of MWOS, even changing the name is still to be processed.

Edited by Cybermech, 01 November 2012 - 11:29 AM.

[Relic1701]

And just to bump this, I requested Taryys' post be sticked, it's now in the Guides forum.

Edited by Relic1701, 01 November 2012 - 05:20 PM.

[0d1n]

Sounds like an excellent idea.

Should turn a lot of the "q qs" into "pew pews", assuming new players actually use it

[Cybermech]

Ye some people seem to not want to join in and get help but instead rage on the forums

[Helmer]

I'd highly suggest taking advantage of this great community resource.

Cybermech and Pheydra Sagan have both been INCREDIBLY generous with their time and knowledge.

Cybermech currently hangs out and is in control of the Education Channel in the EU server
Pheydra Sagan is the current headmistress for the Educational Channel in the NA server.

You are both VERY much appreciated. Thanks to you both



Cheers.

[Protection]

It's really a good place for newer players to get the hang of the game.

[Pheydra Sagan]

Everybody needs to know!!!!!!

[Cybermech]

Since the Education Center is short on resources having them on at the same time does not add up.
It will be arranged around PST time zone, when I got some numbers I will post them.

[Cybermech]

Any groups/corp/houses that want to run some games in the education center would be most welcomed.
Idea is for people to people able to share and learn things.
More channels can be created if needed but just hop onto any of the training channels and start a group.
If anyone want to start leading groups then the education center is a good place to start.

[Lupin]

The point I KEEP making on the point of new players, is they do not bother to read forum or topics.
Then complain about damage of LRMs or something else.

Videos are a step in the right direction, but feel something needs to be put in the way to test them before they jump into a mech.

[Cybermech]

Things seem to be quite enough, I have no idea if new guys are going else were or missing the whole comms aspect of the game

[RFMarine]

I suggest making a guide in another thread or at least mentioning it on the first post of this thread : what the heck is teamspeak, what it can do for you and how to use it