Next steps
Now that you're all caught up on the fundamentals, here are some suggestions about what you could do next to further your ARES experience:
- If you just have insomnia, you could keep going to read Operating ARES cover-to-cover. It's somewhat less informal than the tutorials, but has lots of useful information inside.
- Accessorize! Nanite Systems makes a wide range of devices and other products that are compatible with ARES, as do many third-party companies. Visit our Store page to get started.
- Admire the available software! Under the settings... > software... menu, you can find quite a few interesting programs to install if you're standing in Eisa.
- Attend @beacon meetings to stay in the loop and learn more! These are biweekly get-togethers in Eisa where we talk about upcoming development and new releases. Group notices in the Nanite Systems User Group are the best way to find out when and where these occur.
Interested in helping out? Great! Here's some things you could consider doing:
- Hang out in the Eisa sim. Rubbing shoulders with other NS users is a good way to absorb knowledge, as well as encounter brand-new users who might need assistance.
- Give advice in the NS User Group. If you found the Tutorials to be a long read, chances are someone else did, too. Since this group chat is our primary means of providing technical support for users, anyone who can share information from the Tutorials makes the load just a little lighter for everyone else. (And it's even better if you can link the Tutorial pages directly, as that helps against misremembering things, too...)
- Proselytize. Do you know a roleplay community or group of friends that would be improved by having a Nanite Systems robot in it? Be that robot! Whenever possible, NS prefers to spread by word of mouth rather than direct advertising. By becoming a Marketer–Missionary, you too can fill the world with fun and interactive robot avatars.
- Translate and reformat. You are welcome to make your own tutorials, blog posts, and videos based on official NS documentation. We may not have the resources to produce a complete multimedia experience in a breadth of major languages, but we'll do what we can to embrace efforts made to increase the accessibility of the Nanite Systems experience.
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This is the last tutorial. The next documentation item is the main manual, Operating ARES.