New Things for Ubuntu

Some of my corpmates have gotten riled up about me posting so soon after a battle (for both times that I have) and so Ive been asked to limit the amount of details or wait a week or two afterwards for the politics to work themselves out. I offered a compromise of giving me some of the politics info for delaying my posts. Well, Im posting today with one bit of info that has nothing to do with politics and is more of a guide for my corpmembers to figure out a few new shiny things. As with every new software available, there are bugs, and I will explain work arounds as I get to them.

First, as most members probally have a bookmark for, you will load up our home page (http://ubuntu.truthonly.com/) From here, you will either register or login if you already have. Scrolling to the bottom of the screen, you will see a few links; click portal. The rest, we'll get to later. Personally, I prefer this bar of links at the top of the screen for conveniance due to me using most of them frequently and in quick succession to get quick updates.

Anyhow, this portal link will take you to the core of info about our members and how our corp is run. You have several links off to the left and on the right you will see a chart of the top 10 sponsors in Ubuntu. Sponsoring is required to complete the "Quests", or training, for the corporation to succeed in both PvP and PvE. Things like bumping, fitting, how to use and get jump clones, aquiring the corp standard overview settings, ect. Its not required, but strongly reccomended you complete these. I hate Minmatar ships and have been slacking on getting the Amarr version for bumping, so Im currently stuck on that quest =P

I reccomend doing several Quests in the scholarship section, completing as much of the initiation section as you can, up to the ceremony, which is done in groups. Another quest that should be done quickly, is th toolkit quest. With this sponsorship, you will aquire all the tools needed for fleets (like vent, mumble, ts3), soloing, learning fits, and setting yourself up with a plan to train skills. That last part is important as alot of new players train skills for things they may not enjoy, eventually letting the SP go to waste and not being used. Getting a sponsor is pretty simple: Ask in corp chat for someone to check that you have added the correct info, have them take 10-15 mins to train you the basics of each quest, and then they will sponsor you once they are happy you have learned the training to a competent level. Afterwards, you can sponsor other corpmates for the same training, giving you practice as well. And we all know practice makes perfect!

Once you've completed the toolkit quest, you will need to go through a couple security features that have been implemented recently. The first of which is the "Voice Comms" security pass. Ill go into the different layers of our security system at a later point when the kinks get worked out. Once on the Voice Comms page, you will scroll down and hit the button for "Request More Access". For now, you will want to choose Level 3. This is one of those bugs. Level 3 is for allies of our corp, but level 4+ doesnt recognize us as members yet. But I digress, send your request, which will show up in the "Whispers" subsection of the forums. This allows all corpmembers to see who is progressing with security status and assist in noticing weird and spy like activity. Cuz we'z h8 dem spais!

Once your security status has been processed, you will now have a list of access tokens. Just follow the steps. For me, the instructions were in the middle of two sets of tokens. I tried the bottom part as it was in the order of instructions, however, I must have missed a line and the tokens didntwork for me at first in Mumble. I tried the top list, which was more organized and readable. This set working, I was able to jump into a secure channel on Mumble. Go me! And go you; if you followed the instructions right!

For the last part of my post, Ill go through the different levels of Security. There are seven, kinda like the seven gates of Hell or something. I dunno. Anyhow, without further ado, the security levels!

Level 1: This is for guests of our corp. Like all the newbs that we invite to our lobby channel, who are interested in joining Ubuntu. This is for them to talk to us on voice.

Level 2: This security rating is for blues outside of Alliance or corp. Id like to keep these to a minimum, but Im not da boss =P

Level 3: Allies. If you are in our Alliance, you get this standing. Feel special.

Level 4: This is for corp members who have joined but not yet completed the initiation quests. Yes, we trust you more than we trust alliance members. Feel more special.

Level 5: Full members of Ubuntu get this security status. Full members have completed the Initiation quests. Go us!

Level 6: This status is for our full members who have completed our low/null sec training and are ready for deployment to these areas. Eventually, we'd like all full members to have this standing. Which may need a change of security levels at that point =P

Level 7: This is reserved for the leaders and directors of Ubuntu. They are not special. They are sheep and we follow them as wolves do.


I have also taken the liberty to create some Ubuntu Corp killboards HERE. Because I didnt like the battleclinic ones we were using previously.

And thats all, folks! For now anyways.