Navigating the ARKS ship, more free storage

So after you edited your character and picked your class, you will be thrown into the story mode of PSO2, after you have finished the tutorial and some parts of the story you will be sent here. This is the bridge of the ARKS ship and you progress your story board here. In the story board you experience the story of the world of PSO2 and get rewards for progressing the story.

You get various boosts from completing the story and it is also one of the easiest ways to get your very first set of gear in this game. For example, this "weapons barrier" rewarded right at the start gives a new player enough defensive stats to support their early to mid game.

 Classes like Ranger, Bouncer, Braver, Force and Techer can get their first 9*~10* weapons from the story board too.

So you think that you're sick of the story and you wanna wander around, get out from this portal.

 Press E and you will see this menu pop out. From up to down are
-Move to gate area
-Move to shop area
-Move to casino area
-Move to Francka's cafe

The gate area looks like this after you moved out of the bridge. 

Jump down and both sides at the front are the quest counters of the game as you spawn at the back of the lobby. You accept quests here and can go start killing stuff. We will talk more about that later. The NPC in the middle is Koffie, and she is probably the single most important NPC in your early game. She gives out client orders(missions for you to accomplish) to unlock content in the game. Also, keep in mind your first 30 hours of playtime will probably be doing her client orders to unlock most of the maps you can go to.

Now turn back and keep running until you see the Class Counter like this. Here you are able to change your class, but you aren't allowed to pick a subclass yet. You will need to unlock your subclass from Koffie's orders.

 That's all of the gate area, find one of these lifts to get to the shop area.

There are various shops in the shop area(duh) but some of them are hidden at different places that you will need to know where they are. Let me explain them one by one. The orange one is the Weapons shop, the guy sells shitty weapons and the woman can do a Rare Appraisal to your special weapons, which have a "?" icon instead of a picture of the weapon. The purple shop at the right is the shop that you upgrade your gears from the NPC on the left and the right does pet stuff.

The green shop here sells consumables like Mates that recover your HP in quests, also the. The blue one sells basic costumes.

Now let your character face the entrance of the casino like this. Go up to the stairs at the left and you should see the exchange shop. The exchange shop will be important once you hit late game so keep in mind where it is.

The shops from lets to right are Photon Drop shop, Excube exchange shop, challenge mile exchange shop, shiny stone exchange shops.

Now go up to the right instead and you will see the salon. You can edit your character here and make your first support character after you unlock Koffie's order to do so. Your support character(s) will help you to complete gathering orders and help you to level up faster, details will be mentioned later(soontm).

Go back now and face your character to the big monitor. The circle below the monitor will be holding in game concerts which will happen once in a while. Some of the "lives" are at the center of the shop area like this one.

Go down and go to the left and you should see this. The entrance up there is to the cafe and the shop below are FUN shops, my room shop and weapon badges shop. Just remember that they exist for now.

Get into the Cafe next and you should see this. Welcome to the cafe and people usually go AFK here. The shops at the left are Ring shop, consumable shop and the shop that sells "food" that you can consume to power up yourself in quests. The counters at the right are the Daily order counter and quest counter. So some people want to accept their quest here so they can avoid crowds humping the counter at the gate area.

The left entrance is to the campship, the center takes you to places of the ARKS ships and the right lets you to change your block, which will be explained later. Now choose casino and you can start gambling. LOL. Jokes I'm skipping that, read this guide about the casino and have fun if you want.

Now get to the lift at the right and choose the first option to "My room", I will talk about the other options in the next article. 

After you choose to "My room" you should see this. NOTHING. 

It's up to you to decorate your room but if you

 want to have stuff like this one you would need a "My room pass" or pay cash to buy the premium package.

Turn your back and you should see this. The machine at the left lets you Craft and manage your room. The purple machine is the "Visiphone". The Visiphone lets you to access player shops to buy stuff from them, search for different players and receive stuff from SEGA. The green one is the storage that you put stuff in it since your backpack is limited to 50 spaces. You can find these two machines everywhere in the ARKS ship so you don't need to be at "My room" for managing your stuff. I recommend players to check out these guides to open up more storage spaces to be prepared for the future, because 500 spaces are definitely not enough. Other from the two guides below, players can spend IRL money to expand their storage space by Arks Cash

One time password guide         PSO2es guide

Now press ESC and this would show up. Refer to here and see what the menu at the bottom does. the panel at the top left is your stats like levels of your classes and exp til your next level. And then AC and SG can be purchased by Cash while SEGA sometimes give out SG for free. You can get FUN just by playing the game and Meseta below that is the main in game currency. CM is challenge miles and you get them from playing challenge quests. Also will be explained soontm.

Well thats a long article, hope you had fun and please come back for the next one about moving to different blocks and accepting quests.