Why are they so incredibly terrible?
Kill Pirates in X, Y, or Z system
Buzz systems trying to get USS. Get one random USS which gives you an alternative mission. Aside from the fact it screws your current progress up, I've flown around systems multiple times and sometimes never got what I was looking for. EVENTUALLY I found out on my OWN I could just go to the NAV beacons and look for pirates there. BUT HERE IS THE BIG KICKER: Pirates are only pirates when they are affiliated with a pirate group, NOT an official group. THIS INFORMATION IS NOWHERE IN ANY OF THE GAME DOCUMENTATION AND IS SO INCREDIBLY OBNOXIOUS TO LOCATE. This isn't 'hurrhurr '84 so hard hurrr' gameplay, this is simply AWFUL design.
Kill Traders in X, Y, or Z system
This is even worse than killing pirates. What constitutes as a trader? I've interdicted so many poor NPC sods and killed them. In the process, I racked up a 60k bounty, but guess what? I don't care. But the thing is I spent MY time screwing off when I wanted to get something done in a stupid game about internet spaceships. The big secret, which once again I to FIND OUT on my own, was fly to a nav beacon and RANDOMLY shoot at transport vessels. Some of them were traders, some of them were not. Some of them had escorts, some of them did not (2 of 3 vessels I blew up had zero escorts). I also found ZERO traders in USS which made me waste my time. Once again, zero information ANYWHERE about this other than other player's accounts which can't be taken 100% as being FACT because they're just players and thats their experiences.
Find toxic waste
I spent six hours interdicting ships, going in-and-out of USS, and killing cops and transports left and right. I found ZERO. Thats right, I found artifacts, personal guns, slaves, booze, chickens, midgets, EVERYTHING. But ZERO toxic waste. Seriously, six hours. SIX. HOURS. GETTING NOWHERE. Except getting gangs off at me because apparently I can't deliver squat.
You know what, I understand the difference between good communication and bad communication. But seriously, I am so off because this game is so needlessly frustrating. It's a FUN GAME but most of time is spent aimlessly ing around space trying to follow vague instructions. Seriously, the only missions that seem not jacked up are the courier ones, thats right. I'm doing the work a pigeon from picking my butt from point A and going to point B. And on top of all this, all this crap is timed. So I have to try to get at least something which should be relatively easy to do completed in X amount of time otherwise I'm screwed.
Seriously, what the heck is going on? How did this really get released this way? How do you expect people to buy this game and play it and NOT get off if they're going to do anything else but fly around and shoot space pirates or play space trucker 9000?
You know, even World of Warcraft in it's simple design attracts customers and keeps itself in business because the game itself is so easy to follow. Hand holding to the extreme, sure, but at least it made sense. Even X3 which was a PoS had some improvements such as the ability to check which stations offered missions before you docked at them, and their missions made relative sense as well. For instance, if I had to kill PIRATES, I would really fly out, find something that said 'PIRATE', and blow it up.
No, in this game you need to really sit down and analyze every little detail before making a stupid decision and even then it's not even clear. Like geez. Playing games itself is a waste of time but at least I have fun doing it. But when I'm doing things and I don't even know if what I am doing is the 'right' thing and I end up truly getting NOTHING accomplished, real or not, then I've truly wasted my time, the only thing more valuable than money (real money). And yeah, I value my time greatly because every second I live is another second closer to my death. So thanks for wasting my time.
Another thing is, the game's faulty design makes my credibility look terrible to other people I know because when I want to convince them to play a game and the game itself is so jacked up, do you honestly they think they want to go and spend the money? I already got one friend to buy the game and I feel guilty and ashamed that I have to step in and try to explain why the game is so awful in some areas and make excuses. It makes me feel like a jerk because I made someone who I care about spend their money so we can play and do something, but if they do that and the game turns out to be trash, it makes them less likely to go out and buy something else to play with me. And it makes it that more difficult for me to get other friends to go out and buy the game too. I shouldn't have to make excuses why things do not work in a game or try to convince people to look the other way.
Kill Pirates in X, Y, or Z system
Buzz systems trying to get USS. Get one random USS which gives you an alternative mission. Aside from the fact it screws your current progress up, I've flown around systems multiple times and sometimes never got what I was looking for. EVENTUALLY I found out on my OWN I could just go to the NAV beacons and look for pirates there. BUT HERE IS THE BIG KICKER: Pirates are only pirates when they are affiliated with a pirate group, NOT an official group. THIS INFORMATION IS NOWHERE IN ANY OF THE GAME DOCUMENTATION AND IS SO INCREDIBLY OBNOXIOUS TO LOCATE. This isn't 'hurrhurr '84 so hard hurrr' gameplay, this is simply AWFUL design.
Kill Traders in X, Y, or Z system
This is even worse than killing pirates. What constitutes as a trader? I've interdicted so many poor NPC sods and killed them. In the process, I racked up a 60k bounty, but guess what? I don't care. But the thing is I spent MY time screwing off when I wanted to get something done in a stupid game about internet spaceships. The big secret, which once again I to FIND OUT on my own, was fly to a nav beacon and RANDOMLY shoot at transport vessels. Some of them were traders, some of them were not. Some of them had escorts, some of them did not (2 of 3 vessels I blew up had zero escorts). I also found ZERO traders in USS which made me waste my time. Once again, zero information ANYWHERE about this other than other player's accounts which can't be taken 100% as being FACT because they're just players and thats their experiences.
Find toxic waste
I spent six hours interdicting ships, going in-and-out of USS, and killing cops and transports left and right. I found ZERO. Thats right, I found artifacts, personal guns, slaves, booze, chickens, midgets, EVERYTHING. But ZERO toxic waste. Seriously, six hours. SIX. HOURS. GETTING NOWHERE. Except getting gangs off at me because apparently I can't deliver squat.
You know what, I understand the difference between good communication and bad communication. But seriously, I am so off because this game is so needlessly frustrating. It's a FUN GAME but most of time is spent aimlessly ing around space trying to follow vague instructions. Seriously, the only missions that seem not jacked up are the courier ones, thats right. I'm doing the work a pigeon from picking my butt from point A and going to point B. And on top of all this, all this crap is timed. So I have to try to get at least something which should be relatively easy to do completed in X amount of time otherwise I'm screwed.
Seriously, what the heck is going on? How did this really get released this way? How do you expect people to buy this game and play it and NOT get off if they're going to do anything else but fly around and shoot space pirates or play space trucker 9000?
You know, even World of Warcraft in it's simple design attracts customers and keeps itself in business because the game itself is so easy to follow. Hand holding to the extreme, sure, but at least it made sense. Even X3 which was a PoS had some improvements such as the ability to check which stations offered missions before you docked at them, and their missions made relative sense as well. For instance, if I had to kill PIRATES, I would really fly out, find something that said 'PIRATE', and blow it up.
No, in this game you need to really sit down and analyze every little detail before making a stupid decision and even then it's not even clear. Like geez. Playing games itself is a waste of time but at least I have fun doing it. But when I'm doing things and I don't even know if what I am doing is the 'right' thing and I end up truly getting NOTHING accomplished, real or not, then I've truly wasted my time, the only thing more valuable than money (real money). And yeah, I value my time greatly because every second I live is another second closer to my death. So thanks for wasting my time.
Another thing is, the game's faulty design makes my credibility look terrible to other people I know because when I want to convince them to play a game and the game itself is so jacked up, do you honestly they think they want to go and spend the money? I already got one friend to buy the game and I feel guilty and ashamed that I have to step in and try to explain why the game is so awful in some areas and make excuses. It makes me feel like a jerk because I made someone who I care about spend their money so we can play and do something, but if they do that and the game turns out to be trash, it makes them less likely to go out and buy something else to play with me. And it makes it that more difficult for me to get other friends to go out and buy the game too. I shouldn't have to make excuses why things do not work in a game or try to convince people to look the other way.
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