I recommend visiting your nearby opticians. Here is a screengrab of the reviews page now (with filters selected as shown) - highlighted in yellow are "registration issues" reviews, and for laughs highlighted in orange are "too difficult, can't learn" reviews:
This one is interesting:
Loved the old Frontier.
You started there on a planet - at the New Hope port, right?
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Was getting into Elite Dangerous
Learning curve steep. But fair enough, I enjoy that.
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Got a contract to get some stuff.
Stuff can be only obtained at a surface outpost.
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So I get to the planet.
And - no. ehhmm, how. How do I land? How do I even get close to surface? How do I locate the outpost?
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I'm obviously missing something. So I humbly fly to the place where I can get tutored on planetary missions.
No help there
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Getting slightly frustrated.
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Getting increasingly frustrated.
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Tuuurns out YOU HAVE TO HAVE A BLOODY DLC TO BE ABLE TO LAND ON A ING PLANET.
THIS.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198047977557/recommended/359320/
It also refers to another thread:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/469111-Okay-FDEV-time-to-make-elite-fair-FOR-EVERYONE!
And there is a developer response:
Frontier-Minotaur [developer] Posted: 4 Jan @ 4:46pm
Sorry to hear that this happened to you, ideally Base game players should not have access to these missions and it sounds like something has gone wrong here.
Please could you report this to our bug forums here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php/105-PC-Bug-Reports
I am not sure if this helps for frustrated newcomers.
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