Getting Started

New Page: Creating a Page to help guide people on their first day, have drafted out the basics and will be continuing on this page over the next few days. Once I'm finished I'll remove this note, then please feel free to correct any errors or incorrect advice given. Gimboid (talk) 09:06, 20 January 2014 (MST)

For New Players

When you run through the Tutorial, you have already been placed onto a new, live ship with 15 other crew. Your initial and ongoing contributions can be the difference between the ship's success or destruction!

Once you start, your team relies on you for your contribution. Every character is important, and if you choose to quit once you complete the tutorial, you are leaving your ship a man down! At its heart, Mush is a social game, so communication is key. The information below can help you start on the right track for the character you have chosen. Simply following some of the advice below at the start will help you be a productive member of the crew, if human, or appropriately detrimental, if mush.

When you are a new player, you end your introduction standing on the bridge. While NERON provides some helpful tips, you may not find what to do next immediately obvious.

The server only chooses who is Mush when your crew is complete. In general, this choice only impacts Gioele, because his level 2 skill Paranoid provides him with extra security cameras. If you play Gioele, but end up Mush, then having more cameras on board can be an obstacle to your cause.

Below we provide you with an overview of what you should generally do as you arrive on a new ship, which depends on the character you have selected.

Even if you are selected as Mush, it is advisable to follow your standard duties. Doing your starting tasks avoids drawing suspicion to yourself, which helps keep your identity secret for longer. The following advice is directed generally at ensuring your Mush wins are more successful instead of rushing to try and convert the crew. For more specific and detailed information on playing as a Mush, read the Mush_Play page.

Note: When scouting a dead-end or rarely used room on the first day, such as Front Storage, the Refectory, or the Centre Alpha and Bravo Storage rooms, drop all of your items, including your Walkie Talkie. This way you can immediately pull three items out of the room, leaving them in the adjacent, more visited rooms before returning to grab what you dropped. Doing so can save the team as a whole a lot of organising equipment later.

Derek Hogan

Main article: Derek Hogan.

Eleesha Williams

Main article: Eleesha Williams.

First Steps

• Begin by Scouting the ship, Eleesha normally keeps the Scooter to allow her to better investigate player activity.
• If not already done, assist in locating and installing Security camera's throughout the ship, locating weapons for future tracking is also ideal
• Many players choose to copy the room logs for every room they visit, this allows them to later reconstruct player movements and can help determine suspicious activity.

If Mush

• Print The List as soon as you can get away with
• Determined is still beneficial as a Mush

Finola Keegan

Main article: Finola Keegan.

If Mush

• Due to your Germaphobe trait, Finola must generally play it safe and take their time at the start of a game
• You obviously want to take the anti-mush research slowly, but too slow will lead to suspicion.

Frieda Bergmann

Main article: Frieda Bergmann.

If Mush

• Unless you want to outright destroy the ship as quickly as possible, completing your human tasks as expected (inbetween descreately sporing and infecting people) is advisable

Gioele Rinaldo

Main article: Gioele Rinaldo.

If Mush

• Make sure not to pick the Paranoid skill, in this case you will have to pick Solid only and if asked, tell people you are only level 1

Ian Soulton

Main article: Ian Soulton.

If Mush

• When you are moving your hydropots from the garden to the lab, plant them first in the garden and create your first spores, you can blame the dirty on not yet having/forgetting to use the apron!

Janice Kent

Main article: Janice Kent.

If Mush

• You spend little , as you are generally expected to hang around the Dorms and the Neron Core, this gives you a good oppertunity to extract spores and shower, perhaps even catch someone in the rear corridor

Jiang Hua

Main article: Jiang Hua.

If Mush

• Launch a Scout, Destroy a hunter and Land, you can claim bad luck on your shots and use your spare to create some spores and shower

Kim Jin Su

Main article: Kim Jin Su.

If Mush

• As Jin Su, you really want your crew to trust you, do your normal duties and try and avoid getting noticed dirty early on.

Lai Kuan Ti

Main article: Lai Kuan Ti.

If Mush

• Having The Optimist skill can easily help you explain why your Morale is not a problem

Paola Rinaldo

Main article: Paola Rinaldo.

First Steps

• If Starting on the Bridge
  • If multiple crew are still in Cryo
    • proceed to a Dorm, passing through Front Storage and step into Center Alpha Storage to notify the team of item locations
    • If you spot a security camera and the dorms are not yet setup, take onto Alpha Dorm, install it and lay down whilst waiting for the crew to fill
    • Remain in the Dorm until the ship is full and your is at/near maxium, then proceed to the Bridge then follow Crew are awake below
  • If all the Crew are awake, then immediately attempt to establish Communications via the Comms Terminal, if this fails ask for help
    • If you are in Cycles 1-5 Expend all of your Updating Neron, with luck, you can be at V3.##, but more often part way through V2.##
    • If you are in Cycles 6-8 Update Neron until you only have 3-5 remaining, Spend your remaining on decoding Xyloph DB Entries, do not worry if you loose the connection to Sol
    • Retire to a Dorm and get some Sleep to refresh your Action Points
• If Starting in the Laboratory
  • If you have boarded the ship early (first few crew members), go searching the ship and attempt to locate a Security Camera in one of the Store Rooms
  • Install the security camera in a Dorm and rest-up, saving all your until the crew are awake, then follow the steps below
  • If the 'Crew is awake (or looks like it will be very soon), proceed to the Bridge and wait for the last person,
  • Once they are awake, attempt to Establish Communication with Sol, if you fail, ask the rest of the crew for help.
    • If you are in Cycles 1-5 Update Neron until you have only 2 Left, use these to complete a single Xyloph DB and then retire to a Dorm
    • If you are in Cycles 6-8 Update Neron until you have enough remaining to do two Xyloph DB entries then retire to a dorm

If Mush

• Avoid decoding Xyloph DB Entries, focus on Updating Neron and all the Rebal bases.
• The slower you can get away with Xylorph DB entries, the slower the anti-mush hunt goes on and the less chance of getting the test results that narrow down the possible range of suspects

Raluca Tomescu

Main article: Raluca Tomescu.

If Mush

• As Raluca, you can rush immediately to the Engine Room, Extract Spores whilst alone in the Rear Storage rooms and go immediately progress the Pilgred, Raluca is able to explain being dirty non-stop and if there is no camera in the Engine room, you will have an easy time slowly converting those that come to help reset your progress.
• Make sure not to hang a round other players during Cycle changes, people will quickly notice that you're not struggling with Morale issues if you spend a day in a Dorm.

Roland Zuccali

Main article: Roland Zuccali.

First Steps

• If new, you only have the Sprinter skill, at the start of a new ship, the biggest thing you can contribute is helping move and sort the ships inventory, installing security cameras (there are 3, these are most often installed in both dorms and the Medlab), if Giole picks the Paranoid skill, then there will be two additional cameras which they will place. You are best to then assist where needed, doing planet scans or resetting NERON Projects/Research
• If you are Level 2 or above, picking pilot is always recommended. You should immediately head to a Patrol ship and begin clearing hunters. With help from a second pilot early on, you can clear the initial attack and gather some extremely useful scrap for construction and repairs.
• When playing with Pilot, you are best to conserve your AP when there are no Hunters/Scrap, as you generally want to launch with near or maximum

If Mush

• Like Hua, you can go outside, kill a few hunters with your Shooter skill (if you have it) and land and extract spores, you'll have enough left to shower without the Soap (and hopefully no one noticing) and claim that you spent your entire on shooting at the hunters

Stephen Seagull

Main article: Stephen Seagull.

If Mush

• You have a lot of freedom early on, if you're lucky and get picked as mush soon you may be able to find and hide some useful items such as the Apron, Mush Sample, pickup the Armor/Blaster etc whilst helping 'find' items

Terrence Archer

Main article: Terrence Archer.

If Mush

• As you suffer from low mobility that benefits from someone else being the room you may be able to get some people to follow you into corridors and side rooms to help you move out, providing you oppertunities to infect your crew
• Upgrading Drones can make you Dirty, get hold of enough scrap to upgrade/build your spare drone and extra some spores

Wang Chao

Main article: Wang Chao.

If Mush

• You have a lot of mobility, but very little , making Chao a more challenging Mush to play much like Finola.
• Your best efforts can be spent on keeping attention off your starting partner, for example by creating a private chat with Eleesha (assuming she is not your follow Alpha-mush) and begining your 'investigation'
• If you can help make someone else look suspicious, it can be possible to murder a crew member as a failed attempt at identifying a mush
• Encourage Eleesha to print The List sooner rather than later to make the pool of names larger

Zhong Chun

Main article: Zhong Chun.

First Steps

• If Starting in the Bridge
  • Ask your Team if the Mush sample is already in the Laboratory, if it is, skip to the sample is already in the lab Below
  • If the Sample is not yet in the Lab, proceed to Scout the following rooms: Front Corridor, Hydroponic Garden, Center Storage, Medbay and Laboratory (In that order)
    • You Should look for for the following Items (In order of Importance):
      • Mush Sample/Apron
      • Security Camera
      • Plastenite Armor/Knife
    • Your ideal Goal is to have The Sample and Apron in the lab, with a Camera installed, (Finola should help you with this)
  • If the sample is already in the lab or you located it, immediately begin the Antispore Gas Research with Finola/Ian's assistance
  • Immediately followup with the Contispore Serum until you are low on
  • Retire to the Medbay

Following this, you should focus exclusively on Research, if a Mush dies, immediately progress the Mushovore Bacteria Groups will differ on opinion on what else to Research next if thisi s not an option, If you have the Genome Disk (and a dead mush), Pheromodem us extremely powerful as it allows the team to identify the volume of spiking and possibly identify a mush.

If Mush

• Zhong Chun is always immune, cannot be picked as Mush at the start of the game or be infected, making her the single trustworthy character onboard.