Cadet I/Week One review

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Week One End

Congratulations on making it to the end of week 1. One down, two to go.

Some of the highlights you should be taking away with you at this stage:

• Not every game you join will be playing the same core, but the main game is normally CC_03.
• The newbie servers are a great place to practice flight and combat, but a hopeless place to learn tactics and strategy.
• Allegiance is a TEAM game. The commander is the boss, and he looks after the money.
• How to get around the menu system, load up your ship, and be able to manage your cargo in-flight.
• Communicating with your team via text or voice chats, and be starting to learn some of the abbreviations.
• The icons on your HUD give you a lot of information about your environment.
• The minimap is critical to understanding the overall game flow, and helps you decide what you should do next.
• Information overload is a problem for new players. Concentrate on what the commander is saying.
• The most important task at game start is scouting the map.

Do go back and review this week's material. We have found that people retain more with each reading. Now would also be a good time to read common mistakes, if you haven't already. Then proceed to the next week's lessons.

Review questions

Examine the following image and answer the questions below. The answers are in white text - simply highlight the text to view them.

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General

1.	What team is the player on?
	Blue. You can tell for two reasons: the writing on the gauges is blue, and because the player can see the blue-team-only chat.

2.	What is the name of the team?
	Baconwork. You can tell because it's the words in brackets in the chat.

3.	Who is the commander?
	Bacon_00@XT. You can tell because he is the player with chat in bold.

4.	What sector is the pilot in?
	Dunatis. Top right of screen.

5.	What was the last "Official command" to be issued to the pilot?
	See answer to #6

6.	What "Official command" is the pilot currently undertaking?
	Both are trick questions. The answer is 'None', The top left of the screen is currently devoid of orders.

Gauges

7.	How fast is the pilot moving?
	0mps

8.	What is his radar signature?
	152%

9.	What is his kb?
	25

10.	How much fuel, ammo, and energy does he have remaining?
	All are at 100%. All answers are in the centre of the screenshot.

F7 - Minimap

11.	Whereabouts on the minimap is the pilot currently? (describe location)
	Midhigh. Midhigh centre, to be exact. You can tell by the bright yellow triangle.

12.	Who controls the sector?
	Blue team. You can tell because the sector is coloured blue.

13.	What sector is the pilot examining on the minimap? (name)
	L'sau. Written at the top of the minimap pane.

14.	Whereabouts is that sector? (describe location)
	Right. You can tell by the dark yellow triangle.

15.	Who controls it?
	Yellow team.

16.	What kind of base is in it?
	An advanced supramecy centre. You can tell because it's a solid star with a 'S' on it.

17.	What ships are in that sector? (type of ship, how many, and which team)
	Enemies: 1 basic scout, 10 advanced fighters. Friendlies: 2 advanced scouts.

18.	What are the special rocks in that sector?
	2 Helium rocks. Note that this also tells us that (unless resources were set to scarce) that this is the enemy's home sector, because the normal amount is 4. There used to be a Carbanaceous rock there, but that got built on by the sup station.

19.	How much helium is in the sector? Is that a lot?
	17. No, that is not a lot. That is practically nothing.

F4 - Ship Readout

20.	What ship is the pilot flying?
	Advanced Fighter. At the bottom of the F4 pane.

21.	How many seconds of booster fuel does the pilot have?
	20.

22.	How much total booster time is that, if you include the fuel in cargo? (don't count the time it takes to re-load the fuel)
	60 secs. The pilot has two spare fuel pods each with 20 seconds.

23.	What is the pilot currently doing?
	Reloading. (Also sitting still, looking at the minimap, and taking a screenshot :P)

24.	How many dumb2s does he have?
	5 mounted, 5 in cargo.

25.	What is the range of his dumb2s?
	Range: 1125m.

26.	For the missiles, what does the number after the 2nd / indicate (ie the 13)?
	The damage done per missile - note that it is cut off in the screenshot, and is actually ~ 130.

Icons

27.	How many pilots are chasing the enemy fighter? (describe type of ship and quantity)
	4 fighters and a scout.

28.	Who is the closest to the enemy? Who is the furthurest away? (not including pilots whose icons are in the HUD gutter)
	Closest: Mannoroth. Furthurest: BE10

29.	What type of base is in the sector?
	Blue teleporter. It's icon is in the HUD gutter, just under the minimap.

30.	What type of tech rock is the sector?
	Silicon. You can see the green icon in the gutter at the bottom.

31.	How many he rocks are in the sector?
	4.

32.	How much he is left on the rocks? (Full, Lots, About half, Little, Practically none)
	Practically none.

33.	Who is closest to the pilot taking the screenshot?
	Hyro@SF

34.	What items are floating in the sector that can be picked up? (hint: there are four and they're all in the HUD gutter)
	Cash - top of screen. Powerup - bottom of screen PW EMP cannon - bottom of screen. (Very hard to spot). Unknown tech piece, which is already researched and can't be mounted on the pilot's fig - left of screen. (If it could be mounted, it would have its name displayed since radar mode is set to maximum.)

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