Public Newcomer Helper Log Thread

[Bear]

Shift report four:

In today's report I'm going to start off with something that took me most of the afternoon to complete. Today, I met my first real "lolwut". I was returning to New York after buying my Scimitar for my Angel when I heard a person asking how to get into Alaska. I put a message out that if anyone needed assistance that they should contact me on private comms. Sure enough this person contacted me asking me how get through the mines. About the same a Navy player PM'd me with the information that the person was a lolwut trader. I decided to investigate this further, so I called both of these players to Norfolk shipyard. On the way the I was questioning the trader and he said that he was a Navy person and he was in a Gunboat. When I got to Norfolk the Navy player told me that the trader was actually in an atlas IMG transport. Sure enough when the trader arrived he was in an atlas and had a Navy ID and IFF. It took the Navy player and I all afternoon to finally get it through his head that what he was doing was wrong and that if he wanted to trade with that vessel he should go and get an IMG ID and IFF. To prevent any unwanted questions and wastes of time we went to Kepler to get a Researcher ID so that he could make the journey to Tau 23 to do missions for the IMG. When I got him to finally use the /droprep command we found out that he had high green rep with at least five factions. After sorting that out we went to Tau 23 and finally got him started on missions. I tried my up most with this person but I'm still unsure as to his understanding. He said he understood but I'm still not sure.

A few other things happened in my shift but for the most part it was very slow. I think I'm finally starting to get noticed around the place as I always have people talking to me. I love this job! Pity I still don't have the neutral IFF...

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