How to Enroll in and Attend a PvP University Course

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If you want to enroll in a PvP University course, this is how you do it. Please make sure that you follow the instructions to the letter, don't try to invent any unique manner of registration and so on. If you do, then you make 10 times more work for the instructors and that annoys us.

Improper Enrolments will NOT be accepted.

Please read and understand this article completely before enrolling.

1) Please keep in mind that all courses are announced in Eve Time which means GMT time. The course date may be the day before or after depending on your relationship to Eve time. For example, if you are in the USA and a course is on Saturday at 0200 Eve time then the course is actually on FRIDAY evening for you. If you have trouble converting from your time to GMT, or you just want to make sure you got it right, there is a handy little converter here.

2) Register on the forums. This is required so you can gain access reading materials for the course, as well as the course specific forum. Make sure that you put the character you mean to attend with in your Eve Online Character name field as this information is public.

3) Make a post on the appropriate enrolment thread. These threads are in the enrollment forum and will be titled with the course name, date and time (for example, PVP-BASIC: Saturday January 19 @ 1800 EVE). This post should include your forum name first, then the name of the pilot you will be bringing to the course, the pilot's corp ticker and notice of any existing wars. When posting your corp ticker please place a * after the parentheses if your corp is an NPC corp. For example:

Rells - Rells (AGONY)

or

Oveur - Oveur (SWA)*

Note that you must not use < > brackets or [ ] brackets because they mess up the display of the HTML in the enrolment thread.

4) If the course has pre-requisite courses, put links in your enrollment to the enrollment thread of the pre-requisite that you took.

5) Transfer the ISK for the course to Agony Unleashed corporation [AGONY]. Make sure that you put in the course code (EG: BASIC-1103061900) as the first thing in your payment message; the payment message is truncated in the log so the code MUST be first. The course code can be found in the enrolment thread.

6) Make a post on the forum thread if you are paying for more than just yourself, saying who all you are paying for. If you are using a corporate account, state this in the enrolment thread

7) Reading Materials You will retain online access to the reading materials through the Agony Unleashed Website indefinitely, please note however that the materials are the intellectual property of Agony Unleashed and as such should not be copied, distributed or shared with anyone, without the express permission of the authors or Agony Unleashed. Agony prefers not to make the materials available in an offline format as this potentially can lead to copyright infringement.

8) Read all the appropriate reading material. If possible, do it at least 24 hours before the course starts so that you can get any questions answered. The course subforums are monitored by all Agony members, not just instructors, and they are all happy to help.

9) Make sure you complete any extra skills you need to join the course. You must have all skill requirements before joining.

10) Get your equipment together. You will need to have 2-3 ships already fitted as per the Hydra Principle and a couple each of the various EWAR mods for restructuring purposes. Small turret ammo, light missiles and rockets are cheap so bring plenty, you would hate to run out halfway through the livefire in 0.0. We will try to assist with some mods and ammo where we can, but please do not rely on us having everything that you will need available on hand. Truck on over to the course location and be there ahead of time, there is a lot to cover and latecomers always disrupt the class - it's NOT cool. Having your ships and gear there the day before is always a good idea, that way you only need to log in and you will be ready to go.

11) Insure your ships. We advise that you insure your ships, in PvP its only a matter of time before you lose ships and if it's insured, you will at least recoup a good portion of the ship cost.

12) Clones. We advise the use of Jumpclones where possible as risking implants can be a costly exercise should things go wrong. If you need any assistance getting a Jumpclone, don't hesitate to ask. Also, please ensure that your medical clone is upgraded before the course starts, as there is always a chance you might get podded and losing skillpoints unnecesarily is not pleasant. It is a good idea to move your medical clone to the course starting point, that way should you get podded you can merely jump into a new ship and be ready to rejoin the fleet, rather than having to travel potentially large distances to get back.

13) If for some reason you will not be able to attend the class. We would very much appreciate being told ahead of time you can't make it, but we also accept that things beyond control happen. If you can't make it, you are welcome to enroll next time we run the class - just mention that you have a credit having paid for, but missed, the last class.

14) If you get accidentally put in a class with a war target you MUST observe a cease fire. Students firing on each other is disruptive and the instructor will blow up the agressor, pod them and blacklist them. The only time you would ever fire on another student, is if the instructor gave specific orders to do so. This could for example be where the class was infiltrated by persons wishing to interfere with the students or fleet. If another member of the class is firing on you, do not retaliate (however much you want to), simply warp away and tell the instructor.

15) Factional Warfare should be considered on hold during classes, and as with a normal war, a student engaging another student without instruction to do so will be kicked out of the class and forbidden from returning. Students being fired upon by other students should warp away (if possible) and tell the instructor. They should not fire back (not even electronic warfare) unless the instructor turns the entire class on the aggressing student.

16) Eve University Students A special note to members of Eve-U. Eve University, as a philanthropic organisation, attempts to maintain positive standings with as many other Eve entities as possible. Therefore, it prohibits students of Eve-U from unauthorised combat in 0.0. As an Eve-U student, you are welcome to attend an Agony class - but you should speak to your Eve-U tutor first, and be prepared to drop out of Eve-U for a day to come to the Agony class.