Anonymous Account Services are likely to be important to you, as well as falsifying morph ID nanotats and such.

I mean, if money's no object, Panopticon has a laundry list of VERY expensive, typically illegal mods which will mess up almost any form of recognition people try and run on you, face, gait, biometric, nanotat ID... you can even install fake Brainprints. However, concealing clothing (like the cloaks you'd want normally) and DNA Chaff are much more economical. Along with maybe a Lens Crazer or Dazzler.

Don't worry too much about inexperience. This setting is complex enough that it can give veterans a hard time. You might want to cut back on how much of the setting you use at once. Or even water down some of these aspects. For newbies, I think these will be the hardest topics to grasp: Panopticon - Society has cameras everywhere. Everything is being recorded. Every citizen, every corporate employee, every government agent has access to these cameras. No one really won the surveillance war. Privacy is a luxury. Voyeurism is a common hobby. While you shouldn't expect to be watched every moment of the day, you can't be sure that no one is watching you right now. And even if no one is watching, there is probably some AIs trying to catalog recordings of you in case someone wants to watch what you did earlier. Muses, mesh inserts, programs: It is easy for new players to forget that most people have a computer in their head, software that automatically does work for them, and that they are always online. Its like having a cellphone but in their head. If an insect lands on you, getting more information about it is as thought intensive as making a mental mouse click. You talk to you muse and control your programs by using your thoughts. Only someone who is bad with computers will need to speak out loud to communicate with their muse. Much of what a person sees is altered by AR (Augmented Reality) where computers change the world you see, adding important information or even changing the environment (like making a rainy day seem sunny). Your muse and other programs can be reasonably smart and understand information and commands about as well as any human can. Your muse is probably your best tool, being like your personalized settings made smart and universal. It knows your preferences, music you like, what motivates you, etc and can configure any new software to fit your needs. This integration is so thorough that most transhumans will feel disorientated if they somehow lost access to these technologies. Post Scarcity Economy: Its easy to forget that people in Eclipse Phase live in a post scarcity society. You can have anything you want... within reason. The needs of the masses is easily met. Food is plentiful. Housing can be built quickly. Luxuries isn't that difficult to make. The main reason why so many live in poverty despite the post scarcity economy is that transhumanity barely survived an extinction level event a decade ago. The means of production and habitable space hasn't caught up with the demand. The war before the fall destroyed a great deal of everything. Regardless, post scarcity means that you don't have to hoard goods. It is possible to ask a nanofabricator to make you something and get it made in a few hours. It also means that you can be beamed to another hab far away and quickly get the goods you want. To play a good character, you should try to find a balance between having good equipment to excel and knowing your minimal needs to be effective. Many habs will let you have whatever you need if you are willing to spend the credits for it, while others have their resources stretched so thin that they can't offer you much. To put it another way, a Reaper equipped to take on a small army would be expensive on the former and not possible in the latter. To have an effective combat character, you know how to do war using a flat or case and a 5,000 to 10,000 cr budget. That way, if you get a bigger budget and better morphs, you will do well.