I didn't bother with Half Moon Bay, since I figured there would be so many people there, I'd probably lag out and never get to play again, which has happened at times due to being on dialup. Well... I decided what the hell, I better see what I am missing. Apparently, I was missing half the fun of playing Entropia!
The mission chain leads you down the path to new cape Corinth, which is where you will find daily missions, token exchangers, mining guild representative for mining challenges... You are just throwing away ped if you are mining and not doing the challenges!!! I am actually excited about playing now, it gives me something to work towards even if I can't global or hof most of the time.
Ok... SO:
First upon arriving at half moon bay, you need to go talk to the guy down by the beach, forget his name but you can't miss him, he's the foreman npc. He tells you go kill a few sabakuma and retrieve a finder. Along the way you will probably loot a knife and a gun, but they give you guns and ammo for doing the quest. Sure, is noob weaponry, but that's ok. By the time I made it to cape Corinth, I probably had 5 to 10 peds profit including mu on stuff. Not bad for just killing time. Plus skill gains too!
After you return to him with the finder, you are sent back in to go after the big sabakuma in the nest, which is inside an instance. Go into the cave and follow it in and kill the big saba. Return and then you will be asked to talk to the female NPC that is hiding in the bushes by the TP. You will be sent up the road to find her boss.
Please note, MA did a crappy job of writing a story and plot, half it might make sense and only then if you make up half the stuff that supposed to fill the blanks. They even have two npc's conflicting about whether the one NPC is a male or female! Talk about bad writing. But, I will be the first to admit fiction writing is very tough, simply because fiction HAS to make sense, reality doesn't.
You end up progressing down the path, and you find the npc's boss, who instructs you to retrieve 5 maffoid skulls and turn them into her boss. You are given a voucher once you do that, for a piece of CDF Scout armor, UL. I got the harness which presently is +4 ped mu. I think what piece you get is entirely random.
BEFORE you get to her boss though, you will run across a courier that lost medical supplies. This is a quick and easy quest as it is just around the next bend and on the right in a little path on the other side of some big rocks.
There are a few more quests though, and even some I am told beyond Corinth, including a kill 300 punies and get 4 peds of ammo.
It will give you hours of fun if you have nothing better to do than sweat!
GOOD LUCK!