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I am sorry, I play not even 2 weeks, I have still orange jumpsuit and Sollomate Rubios and I did not deposited and did not beg anything from my mentor. He bought my sweat for 2 peds, he helped me to find some TPs, but that was all.

I would feel bad to take things from him, in normal game and even more in EU, where even as non depositer, I would feel like I am taking his reall money away. 

I had problem even in WoW and others "normal" games to take 1 gold from highest level :-) Not to  mention  EU, where the money are much more valuable. 

But to be honest, just yesterday someone from society gave me ammo and rubios worth 4 PEDs. Of course I did not turned it down, since I had unlucky hunt just moment before, but I don't think it is neccessary to be sponzored.

I was choosing mentor even according to this. Some were offering money, some were saying "no begging" I choose the one who said "I will give you a hand and teach you basics", nothing more, no promises, no threatening and suspicing from begging even before we meet :)

I found this awesome guide it has helped me out alot it has everything you need to know about the game. The mentoring part is under mentoring the cool part is all you have to do is click on it and it will take you right to the page!

I just would like to add some up-to-date information.

Since the introduction of Arkadia, the disciples that were born on Ark would receive an Adjusted Musca armor (and red jeep ofc) as graduation gift. This happened no matter on which planet you graduated.

However, this was bugged lately, so since 19-11-2013 it has officially been changed:

Now everyone, regardless on which planet you are born, will receive the armor from the planet you are graduating on.

So if you are graduating on Arkadia you receive the Musca, while on Calypso and all other planets, you receive the Pixie.

Note also, that this is already valid in the planet's space; so if you are in space, but inside the Arkadian 'quarter', you will receive the Musca too.

The Musca has a better overall balanced protection. However, the total protection remains the same as the Pixie.

Biggest difference is the dramatically different look, though that is a matter of taste.

Better to get the Musca in my opinion. Can always sell it and buy Pixie if you really want it.

I tried to graduate from the Arkadia space station but it did not work. Had to go planet side to complete my mentorship.

A friend graduated a few days ago, while on a MS in Arkadian space. And received the Adjusted Musca without any problems. So that's why I wrote that you can also graduate in space (someone else had traveled past the Arkadian 'square', and received an Adjusted Pixie).

But to be sure I guess it is best to just go land on planet Arkadia itself.

And I hear people trying to sell their Pixie for about 40 ped total on the Quarry, so I don't think you got shafted too badly: 30 ped is TT value, right?

The Musca is listed on Entropedia for 84 ped total, but I have no idea if that is still current.

Since I have no inclination at all to sell my Musca, I haven't paid attention to the price. But I'll check it out when I'm ingame.

More or less 3 - 4 weeks ago, MayBe. It was a little buggy, didn't go through the first time, even on the planet.

Unless the price dropped drastically, 40 peds is damn cheap for Pixie. Sold my set (4/7 ready to tier though) for 100 peds on caly. Used the money for space skilling to finish my mentorship. 

I work for GMC now and they require a 200 ped deposit before you can start. Used my adj Musca as collateral so did a calculation of the total set price 2 weeks ago and it worked out on +- 151 peds. 

Space skilling is a very fast way to complete it. Depending on whose boat you do it on it is 18.5 - 20 peds for every 5%. The cost is for one rk-5 and enough wire to finish it.

My boyfried get already a chopper, whole armor suite, some guns and he is taken for the TPs or L22 mob hunt for free all the time :))

It is a bit frustrating :-)) But I don't think I would enjoy it on his place :)

So I found a mentor from completly different timezone, I don't know much about him (he had decent info in register) and we don't spend too  much time chatting or things like that and I am  kind of happy like that :)

I know one very good mentor. Great even, he is online  all the time and he does sponzored hunts and mining trips for dispciples, he even introduce them to buyers and shows them everything.

I think both kind of mentors are good, the active and the silence, who give you hand when you asked them etc., but don't sponzore you. I wouldn't enjoy the one who is helping and doing everything for you, it would probably ruined my game to be "forced" do the thing I have no mood for atm., and when I could not discovered all the cool things my self.

I can't wait to be mentor my self (if I will stick with the game for so long, never sure about it, but I hope this is the one:), not sure which kind I am going to be, yet :)

He tells me what to stay away from, he encourages me to play the game at my own pace, he gives me stuff, he doesn't hesitate to tell me when im not making a good decision, and he's all around fun to be around. We have plenty of conversation, plenty of laughs.

I'm 30% of the way through the mentorship and chugging along at a pretty good rate. for those of you who do not wish to mine or craft, you can graduate by hunting and doing repair in space. Hunting is the easiest way. you gain anatomy for killing things and there are low level monsters such as Feran and Carabok whose IFN missions have big anatomy rewards at stage 3. To hunt the Feran, you need at least a TT rifle with your skill in it at the max, a decent healing item, and some patience. The feran are easy to kill when you find the trick to them.

anyways, happy mentoring everybody. I know I can't wait to graduate so my mentor can have a good mark with a 5 star rating by his name. That arkadia armor looks pretty awesome too :)