1st- do the tutorials 2nd- finish the exams ( you dont need to finish the final exam right away ) 3rd- find a good clan to join 4th- take a basic cutter and do passenger missions till you have a traders brig and 100k in the bank 5th- use the traders brig and do cargo and passenger missions while you buy two more traders brigs to do more missions till you have around 500k in the bank 6th- use the trader tool in the map menu to learn which trade goods you can buy cheap and sail them to a port that will buy them high 7th- try to keep your reals around 500k and start fighting Ai and players. Your