[2020] I need some help doing basic things

Like Vishimtar said, there's no need to rush but, for some tips:

- Leveling up: Equip rank 3 inspirational, play as a team, sleep in your camp to gain +5% experience, eat canned meat stew from the feed the people event when you can (another +5% experience) and kill as many enemies as possible. Ghouls are great for experience.

- Scrip: you get scrip from events and selling legendaries to the legendary scrip vendor at Stations. The treasure hunter event on right now is a good way to get legendaries to be able to scrip at these station, but again some events have a good spawn of legendaries especially when you get to a higher level event (uranium fever, radiation rumble, etc) and areas like West Tek (again, once you can go there) spawn a few legendaries.

- Plans: can be bought from most vendors, just depends on what you want. They can also be found and dropped randomly, so focus on what you need and aim to get those first. The rest will follow once you get a few caps

- Legendaries: as above. Until you get to a higher level, most legendaries you get right now aren't super super important to keep, so use them until you find something better and then scrip to be able to purchase more from the Rusty Pick.