Communication

Turn chatnet on. Now you can chat  with other players. You can view a history of the chat by typing chatnet history.

You can view all the players that are currently connected by typing who. This will show up a list with everyone and the thing they are doing. Take note of the idle column as this is useful information to determine whether your communications with this person will be effective.

You can also directly page . If you really need some attention, page vanity Hiya!. Please don't harass a player. Some people might be very busy or some might have a hard time with processing all incoming information that the game is outputting due to whatever reason (they might just be drunk) (or getting shot) (or traveling).

If you get no response, don't spam but try at another time with other players online. If someone is able to help you and sees your message you will most likely get some help.

Other nets you can turn on are critternet, griefnet, mailnet and comedynet. You can view the chat history on these nets by critternet history for example.

If you are in a corp you can use corp  to chat too. You can chat with your buddies this way but I'm sure they have told you about this already if you are in a corp. You can turn corpnet on and off by corp on and corp off and view history with corp history. However if you are in a corp and didn't know about this yet you should look at corp output more closely.

You can subscribe to a a few different kinds of mail collections. To get a list of all collections just do @subscribe. You probably want to @subsribe on at least *clp, *bug, *ide and *gr.