Okay, so I made my way to Sol for a look around. Took the first mission I was offered - a run to Alpha Centauri to deliver some clothes.
Didn't realise that system is some kind of in-joke, but I went there anyway, supercruising for over an hour to reach the station.
Delivered the goods, and saw they had Centaurian Mega Gin on sale. Only 3K, with a galactic average of over 10K. So I stocked up, spending all my cash to fill my hold.
Head back to Sol to sell it, but the price they're offering is also 3K. So I head further out. Everywhere offers 3K. I go further still, into the unknown, until I'm more than 200 light years from home. The last stations I saw were still offering 3K for this mysterious 10K product, so I head further still, fuel-scooping my way between dead stars in uninhabited space.
Somebody must want to buy my gin.
Until, finally... interdicted by a random NPC. After failing to escape interdiction my shields are down and my hull was already damaged from all the fuel-scooping, so I'm killed instantly.
Now I have now money and no worthless gin. I'm back at the last station I visited, many light years away, and I'm in debt from buying back my ship. My will to play has vanished for now. That was honestly the most annoying experience I've ever had in a computer game.
Didn't realise that system is some kind of in-joke, but I went there anyway, supercruising for over an hour to reach the station.
Delivered the goods, and saw they had Centaurian Mega Gin on sale. Only 3K, with a galactic average of over 10K. So I stocked up, spending all my cash to fill my hold.
Head back to Sol to sell it, but the price they're offering is also 3K. So I head further out. Everywhere offers 3K. I go further still, into the unknown, until I'm more than 200 light years from home. The last stations I saw were still offering 3K for this mysterious 10K product, so I head further still, fuel-scooping my way between dead stars in uninhabited space.
Somebody must want to buy my gin.
Until, finally... interdicted by a random NPC. After failing to escape interdiction my shields are down and my hull was already damaged from all the fuel-scooping, so I'm killed instantly.
Now I have now money and no worthless gin. I'm back at the last station I visited, many light years away, and I'm in debt from buying back my ship. My will to play has vanished for now. That was honestly the most annoying experience I've ever had in a computer game.
