First off, let me introduce myself. I'm relatively new to the game, the little bit of money I've made has mostly been through exploration. My highest rank is Ranger in exploration, I'm competent in combat and if I remember correctly I'm a merchant in trade. I'm mostly a peaceful player, aside from the occasional bounty hunting/PVE If I see another random commander I usually try to add them as a friend since I think it's kind of cool to see them since I usually don't see them too often. However, I had my first bad player experience today.
I had flown to the Maia system all the way from LHS 3295, carefully scanning systems along the way and scanning many planets. This went relatively well. I sold some cartographic data and made a couple million credits. After I got to the Maia system I bought some Meta-Alloys to take to Felicity Farseer over in the Deciat system.
I flew for probably 2 hours, collecting data and scanning planets on the way to my destination. Eventually I reached my destination with my cargo in hand and my data ready to be sold. I was pretty happy since I was looking forward to trying my hand at engineering for the first time. Unfortunately for some reason I didn't think that the system would be full of hostile players (I guess that was a little naive on my part since I'm relatively new). I get to the system and I am interdicted right off the bat. To my horror I realized I was being attacked by a player but luckily managed to frame shift out even if I was barely alive.
So I continue to my destination only to be interdicted again (not sure if it was the same player or another one). At this point I'm not really fighting back since I'm just in a diamondback explorer and I'm just trying to get out alive. I end up being destroyed, all of my data and cargo lost. The worst part is they didn't even want my cargo, they just wanted to ruin my night by destroying my ship.
Now I'm thinking about security. I wish I didn't have to think like this, I really wish that players would be friendly to one another but unfortunately I guess the game doesn't work that way.
So I'm here to ask, what are some good player factions to join that I can fly with? I'm not looking to gank other players but I'm looking for a defensive faction with other players who can help each other out in a time of need. Maybe a group that I can form a wing with so I can at least go to some populated systems without having to worry about getting destroyed by jerks who just want to ruin someone else's day.
I'm new but if any faction would accept me I'd be very happy if they'd be willing to help me out as a new player. I'm willing to learn and willing to help any way I can even if I am still kind of a noob. I really just want some wing mates to fly with since there is at least security in numbers.
I'm not really sure what else to say but I thought I'd tell my story in the hopes that there is a faction out there who might want to fly with me. o7 Commanders.
I had flown to the Maia system all the way from LHS 3295, carefully scanning systems along the way and scanning many planets. This went relatively well. I sold some cartographic data and made a couple million credits. After I got to the Maia system I bought some Meta-Alloys to take to Felicity Farseer over in the Deciat system.
I flew for probably 2 hours, collecting data and scanning planets on the way to my destination. Eventually I reached my destination with my cargo in hand and my data ready to be sold. I was pretty happy since I was looking forward to trying my hand at engineering for the first time. Unfortunately for some reason I didn't think that the system would be full of hostile players (I guess that was a little naive on my part since I'm relatively new). I get to the system and I am interdicted right off the bat. To my horror I realized I was being attacked by a player but luckily managed to frame shift out even if I was barely alive.
So I continue to my destination only to be interdicted again (not sure if it was the same player or another one). At this point I'm not really fighting back since I'm just in a diamondback explorer and I'm just trying to get out alive. I end up being destroyed, all of my data and cargo lost. The worst part is they didn't even want my cargo, they just wanted to ruin my night by destroying my ship.
Now I'm thinking about security. I wish I didn't have to think like this, I really wish that players would be friendly to one another but unfortunately I guess the game doesn't work that way.
So I'm here to ask, what are some good player factions to join that I can fly with? I'm not looking to gank other players but I'm looking for a defensive faction with other players who can help each other out in a time of need. Maybe a group that I can form a wing with so I can at least go to some populated systems without having to worry about getting destroyed by jerks who just want to ruin someone else's day.
I'm new but if any faction would accept me I'd be very happy if they'd be willing to help me out as a new player. I'm willing to learn and willing to help any way I can even if I am still kind of a noob. I really just want some wing mates to fly with since there is at least security in numbers.
I'm not really sure what else to say but I thought I'd tell my story in the hopes that there is a faction out there who might want to fly with me. o7 Commanders.