A friend of mine in the town that I live in told me about
EU.
He said I needed the TPs so that I could get around.
Got my new PC at end of August 2007 and downloaded
EU.
Started playing on Sep 1, I was on vacation so gave it a go.
8 to 12 hrs a day took me 6 days to get most of TPs and revivals without maps. No armor no guns, just me in my then orange suit. (Both continents).
Started SW from PA and went to coast, died a few times, back to PA.
Learned that water was a friend.
Would run and avoid mobs till I was a long way from a TP or a revival, then self-destruct, back then it was easy a Daikiba did me in easy.
If I went forward to a new TP or revival then continued in that direction, if I bounced backward to TP behind me, then went between the last two points and used myself as bait again.
Big bird like thing consumed some time west side of my fist pvp zone.
I was surprised that there was not revival in the SE corner of the continent.
Also SW of Pa on my way home found out that water is not always your friend.
Worked my way around Eudoria, and then filled in the missing areas for TPs and revivals, buy going between two known points, and getting killed. (Did not know about ‘T’ on keyboard, after I found out what ‘G’ was for).
Did the same on Amethera only I was a lot smaller or it is a lot bigger, and those invisible walls fooled me for a bit, till I read the red print at bottom of screen.
After doing all this work I started reading and searching and found some neat maps that would have made the TP run a lot easier.
My records and the maps were in slight disagreement, I was short a total of 3 TPs. Picked them up easily.
Was still a N00b when I got back to PA, someone asked to be my mentor and join SOC. Joined SOC but my skills were too advanced to be a disciple.
I have be playing this game for 6 months now and am still a N00b, just like in RL, had my 65th birthday 2 days ago.