Hey ASA,
Entering an arena is pretty simple. (So simple in fact that I just had to start up the game to see how to put it in words
)
You just select the arena you would like, and click on it once. Then press the "OK" button. This will get you into the arena, as long as we're talking an online pay to play arena (Main Arena, Dueling Arena, Training Arena, Axis vs Allies Arena, etc.), you don't have to ask to join. You just hit ok and join in the fun.
Once in there, you can say hello to people on your own country by using the radio.
/ is for you own country. This text for this channel is green.
You can also tune a radio channel to channel 200, which is the place we all go to cry, whine, joke with, make fun of, and insult each other, usually in good taste and fun, and sometimes not
The text for this channel is gray.
To tune, you would press / to bring up your text input rectangle (probably a better word for this), and then you would type .radio 2 200
Then hit enter.
You are now open to all sorts of slander and abuse, congratulations
To use this channel you would press shift and / at the same time.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure I'd recommend tuning 200 at first, although you're a self-proclaimed old geezer (no offense
) and I'm sure you've heard it all. Anyway, it's your personal choice.
If you find you don't like the channel, you'd hit / to bring up that text input rectangle (
), click on the little arrow next to 200 (channel 2, if you followed me word for word), and then you'll get a little scroll bar where you can select a different channel (and color) to type on.
For the first few weeks it may well serve you well to use channel 2 as your "Help" (Orange text) channel, although to be honest I am not sure if this is already on, by default, and if it is, by default, the " / " key, in which case I may have just confused you
At any rate, you can customize your radio channels so that /, Shift and /, Ctrl and /, and Alt and /, are set as you please.
If I've hopelessly confused you here, that might make two of us. Where's Schatzi with the simple explanations, anyway?