BRAVE, NEW, AND LOST - THE BRAVE GUIDE

This guide is intended to be read by *everyone* in Brave, but especially the new recruit. This will have all the basic things you need to get set up in Brave, and we'll try to keep it as short as reasonably possible while still explaining why you should be doing these things. Feel free to skip over any sections you already know.

First, of course, Apply to Brave Newbies.

We highly recommend new players to complete the tutorials first (Both the basic ones and the career agents) and try to run the Sister of Eve Epic Arc. They will teach you basic game mechanics and provide you some assets and ISK.

Set up Brave Core - You'll need this to access nearly any Brave Information, including joining fleets (groups).

Set up Brave Mumble - This will allow you to join our voice chat, required for fleets. Also the lobby and GE-8JV defense fleets are fine places to hang out and get to know brave members.

Set up Mumble whisper key - There are two levels of conversations in Brave voice chat (comms), the Fleet Commander (FC) can talk with the fleet, and the FCs can also talk among themselves to coordinate. As you can imagine, it can be difficult for the FC to be in two conversations at once. So you'll have two keys for mumble, one that everyone can hear (shout, default key) and one that only your peers can hear and not the FC (whisper). If the FC doesn't need to hear it (questions anyone can answer, random BS), use your whisper key. If it's something the FC needs to hear, such an enemy intel, use your shout key.

Jabber Setup - Chat client that can be used from out of game. It also allows you to receive notifications when fleets are going out or other important things are happening. Highly recommended for joining fleets. You'll also want to load the "Join/Part Hiding" plugin from the plugins dialog.

Your tutorial missions will probably have you start training something. Good all-around basic skills that everyone should have include Navigation III, CPU Management III, Afterburner III, and Power Grid Management III. A brief guide to other general skills that are important and *always* useful can be found here (public).

The skill plans here will go more in depth and give you some options to train for the doctrines (types of ships) Brave prefers.

Brave also runs a free skillbook program. Though they do ask that you don't request more than a few days of books at a time.

These instructions help you accomplish two things. One, being able to see things around you in space effectively in a way that is most appropriate for your situation. Two, it allows you to distinguish friendlies from enemies. Please don't shoot friendlies.

The quick and easy way is to pod express. Two and a half minutes and you wake up in GE-8JV (or your chosen station), naked, but with friends. ;) You can also try to jump your way out here for the adventure, but I'd highly recommend not bringing anything valuable. You might use a combination of the two, setting your medical clone to GE-8JV and then trying to jump out here.

Generally, use
GE-8JV if you want to join a fleet (more on this shortly)
QETZ-W, BUZ-DB, or GJ0-OJ if you're interested in mining or exploring.

Once you have joined the Brave Collective you are also a member of the HERO coalition.

Check this Null Basics Guide if you're not familiar with basic null mechanics such as insta-dock/undock, bubbles, directional scans, tacticals, and watching local.

How To This is an anti-spam measure that will annoy your friends or anyone trying to help/talk to you. It's a fee to start a conversation with you, and it's really unnecessary.

Join the Intel - HERO chat room. How to join a chat room

Please report anything you see in Catch! With everyone's help, our intel network will usually allow you to see enemies for several jumps before they get to you, keeping us all a little safer, and allowing us to prepare for our enemies earlier. Every newbro out scanning, ratting, or just traveling and reporting info helps.

The components that make up reported intel are:

• System Name
• Number of neutrals/enemies
• Alliance or a link to the name of one of the enemies
• ship types from DScan or overview or sometimes a link to a dscan reporting tool or "nv" for no visual

http://intel.bravecollective.com - The Brave Intel Map. Anything reported in the Intel - HERO chat room will show up here. It also displays all of our jump bridges and is just generally useful as a map of catch. If you're not using this, you're doing Catch wrong. (Note that this also works great on a tablet or a separate laptop.)

Whenever you move round any part of catch make sure you check the Intel map at http://intel.bravecollective.com before you jump to your next system. For example the System of BUZ-DB which is where the mighty bloodminers live is always bubbled. Which can put our friendly newbros and other members at risk if you are moving in slow ships and there are any nuets in there already. This also makes it a little safer for you to make your isk, so by all means move some ratting or mining ships in to BUZ-DB and make some iskies for all your PVP addictions.

Another system that is bubbled all the time is V2-VC2. This system is owned by our friends of Bloodline. They have a Jump Bridge in Q-U96U which gives handy and safe access to all our members.

You're going to have a TON of questions. This isn't WoW where everything is handed to you in a nice little bow. No one is going to ask you to go out and keel six snow moose over and over again. Don't be afraid to ask questions, especially in the Brave Dojo channel.

Reading this is the first step that should answer a lot of questions. If you see someone asking a question that is answered here, direct them here.

Second, try Google for at least 15 seconds. There's a lot of Eve information out there.

Third, ask in the Brave Dojo channel. How to join a chat room You should join this channel anyway. Tons of useful information, opportunities to see questions you didn't even know you had, and it won't take long before you can start answering questions there on your own. (You probably can already.)

Well, first, don't worry about it. Frankly, your stuff probably weighs more than it's worth paying someone to carry it. Leave it all behind besides the very cheap ship you're flying in and some ammo (if that). If you find you really need it later, you can always go back for it. If you really know what you're doing, and you're certain you want stuff hauled, see our hauling page and associated FAQ. (Hint, for high sec to Catch, ship in two parts. Once to Mendori, then to Catch.)

* Join fleets! - This needs a better guide, but here's a start.

* Mining with Bovril - Bovril plz write guide. (an old guide but the basics are the same, will up date) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j2zuQmaD1WS8D-gtKgi2qgbAZpxjeImLs_7BRCULlgs/edit?usp=sharing. There are newbie mining ships and skillbooks available in the PvE section of DoctrineShips. (Copy link and open in in game browser. Select "PvE" doctrine, and select "Contracts" on the mining ship you'd like to use.)

* Exploration - Exploration in eve is the act of flying around, scanning down hidden sites, so called “Cosmic Signatures”, entering them, and looting their contents with the use of a hacking tool. You are the Indiana Jones of EVE trying to hunt down loot and escape with it while our enemies roaming Catch are trying to hunt you down and steal your loot. It is a very fun as well as profitable activity. You must constantly be a step ahead of your hunters. Do this right, and you will walk away with your pockets full of isk. Interested? Well then welcome to exploration! There are newbie exploration ships and skillbooks available in the PvE section of DoctrineShips. (Copy link and open in in game browser. Select "PvE" doctrine, and select "Contracts" on the exploration ship you'd like to use.)

* Ratting - Hunting down rats in anomalies and asteroid belts.

* Planetary Interaction (PI) - The process of extracting materials off of planets. Most of the effort here is in research and setup. Once you have it ready to go, it takes very little effort to just keep it running and collect ISK indefintely.

GE-8JV is our headquarters. It has a lot of people and enemies love to hang out anywhere that has a lot of targets. Keep your ships you want to use for fleets in GE-8JV. Keep any ships that you want to do solo far, far away from there or other highly populated/camped areas. If you try to keep your exploration ship in GE-, you're going to have a bad time. Here's a brief, rough guide to safety areas of catch.

GE- is for fleets and has the best market. Other than those things, I'd avoid it. If you want to move ships through highly populated areas, try to find someone to scout for you in a cheap atron.

It's pretty simple, even though it tends to cause a bit of controversy. You can curse in Brave as much as you like. We do not tolerate racist, homophobic, or otherwise bigoted speech in OUR COMMS or our channels. We do not try to police other people's comms, such as our non-brave allies.

It's still going to happen here and there. It's a big (and ugly) part of video game culture. While we do what we can to keep that stuff out of Brave, it's inevitably going to leak a bit. Recommended procedure when encountering this is to just say something. Usually something like "hey, stay classy plz" is enough to remind people. Typically it'll stop there. If that's not enough, file an HR complaint. Recordings and chat logs are good, but not mandatory. If it continues, it's not hard to catch. If it stops, well, that's fine too.

Don't use it. We have several thousand people in the corp, if everyone spammed corp mail for every little thing it would turn into a mess very quickly. Cagali will hurt you.

Complaint Form - Encouraged for use especially when spotting racist, bigoted, or otherwise unclassy chat/comms. Brave has a little higher standards than the rest of Eve, so these complaints will definitely hold more weight if they occur within Brave controlled environments. Feel free to report anything here, however (not just unclassiness), and it will be handled as appropriate for the situation.

Brave IT - The IT room in jabber is the best place. You can also try the "Brave IT Team" channel in game.

PvP Feedback Form

Brave Collective Leadership and Command Structure