Hi, and thanks for the thoughtful insight.
My first post was in the Guardians section, and after waiting a bit, no one had replied. So, being in the middle of the site and trying to figure it out, I thought I'd post in the newcomers section because I've had good luck there.
I received some great advice there, but it all supposed a certain knowledge on my part that I lacked. That's no fault of the people offering advice, but when asked "is your night vision on" ... I did not know what night vision was at the time. When asked "are you using your external camera," I did not know how to do that. When criticized about my SRV driving, I did not know the SRV had a vertical thrust allowing me to "jump."
So again, those giving advice assumed I knew such things and made suggestions based on that.
Because I wasn't getting info that I could use (nothing at all on post 1 at the time and advice i couldn't use yet on post #2), I tried to delete them and then post a 3rd time explaining my deficiencies and attempting to be more clear on what I needed help with. Unfortunately this site doesn't allow you to delete posts, so I ended up with three, with the third one hopefully being clear enough to get what I needed.
I enjoy learning new things, but this game has ALWAYS had a huge learning curve. There is tons of information out there, almost too much, and again a lot of it assumes you know something already. It's very very difficult to find "an idiot newbie guide to an SRV" that explains, if you ever need to "jump" there is something called "vertical thrust." Yes, it's out there, but it's challenging to find if you don't know you need to learn about vertical thrust in the first place. 99% of the excellent tutorials assume you have knowledge which is hard when you don't, because then you have to search for more video's or posts to explain it (ex: "use the diddle key to turn on camera suite"... WTH does that mean? Now, 7 hours later I know, but that assumes I know what a "diddle key" is and what a "camera suite" is as well.
I've never used the camera. I never felt a need to. I dislike driving the SRV to collect minerals and stuff, so I just have little experience with it. Maybe that makes me a bad player or an idiot... but it is what it is.
I'm sure you pick up everything as easily as a fish swimming through water, but not all of us do.
I appreciate the others that took the time to be thoughtful and not critical and offer well-meaning advice. It was a struggle, but I have gained the basics of the camera now and learned how to jump in the SRV. I'm still having difficulty with finding what I need at the Guardian site, but I think I now have the knowledge to begin to figure it out for myself using the advice and tools those thoughtful people offered.
Hmm, your 3rd thread on this subject today ... don't know why you expect different advice in a new thread
Ok.... taking a deep breath and trying this again....... I have been trying to do the guardian blueprints. 1) I've read all the tutorials and all the youtube videos on how to do it. I get it. Go to the machine. Activate pylon 1, then raise pylons 2,3,4,5,6. Destroy sentinels. Then shoot...
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Ok. I've watched a dozen youtube vids and read a dozen tutorials on how to do the guardian blueprint stuff. I understand and get it. If i could look directly down like the maps they all show, I could probably find stuff easily. But ... I'm in an SRV and can't see the ground well. I've...
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Maybe if you listened to some of the advice on any of these threads, tried it out and reported back, rather than ignoring the advice and just starting a new thread every few hours you might make some progress...
