have been playing this game for a little over a day now. I haven't made a single credit, and died about 400 times now. The ship you start with, cant go up against any of the other ships unless its the same kind of ship. My first mission was to go to some system and kill 4 pirates. Cool no big deal. I go to the said system, and cruise around for and hour and 45 min. I never ran into a single pirate, never even found a planet, or anything. I was getting ready to leave the system and out in the middle of nowhere I find 5 cargo containers floating.
So I picked up the containers, and headed back to a system with stations. I go to dock in the station and all of a sudden I am hit with a 9,300 cr fine. Turns out my cargo was stolen, even though they were abandoned in space. So i land and try a new mission. This one again involved finding and killing 4 pirates in a nearby system. I traveled to the system and cruised around for about an hour. I then was about to give up on it until i saw one last unidentified signal. I checked on it and he engaged communications with me.
He offered me 1500 cr to not kill pirates. At this point im like yeah whatever dude, im getting paid. So I attack him, only to incur a bounty for doing so. As im trying my hardest to kill this dud 3 other players show up, and I die in 3 shots. At this point i decide i will try a different kind of mission since the sidewinder cant kill anything. I take a mission to get some material and bring it back before the station runs out of it. I start trying to find this material. Now I have no credits so I cant buy it. so my option is to mine it possibly.
I start jumping from system to system looking for a place to mine and buy mining equipment. I jumped around for about 2 hours and never found what I was looking for. Almost every system I check had nothing, but a big star in it. Finally I start getting frustrated, and just quit for the night. I came back today hoping I would do better. I have been playing now for 6 hours today and still haven't made a single credit or completed a single mission. I notice that there seems to be some interconnection between systems as far as fines, bounty's, and stolen goods. But why is there no data on systems before you travel to them.
I shouldn't have to discover absolutely everything for my self. If someone had already discovered it, then that data should be available for everyone. Also the market in one station should be able to look at other stations so your not just flying in the dark only to find you wasted your entire night. I'm not asking you to hand me the game and do everything for me. I am just asking that you throw me a bone so I can even get started. I also think that it sucks you didn't make everyone start over on the same level when the game launched. cause I am constantly being killed by other players with bigger and better ships.
This game lacks any kind of detail to get a new player going in it. The tutorials barley tell you how to do anything. Now bring on the Trolls cause I know all the fan-boys that have been playing for 6+ months are going to tell me I'm completely wrong. And one last thing. It took me almost 3 hours to get my thrustmaster joystick mapped and working with this game. I though I would be able to plug it in and it just work.
So I picked up the containers, and headed back to a system with stations. I go to dock in the station and all of a sudden I am hit with a 9,300 cr fine. Turns out my cargo was stolen, even though they were abandoned in space. So i land and try a new mission. This one again involved finding and killing 4 pirates in a nearby system. I traveled to the system and cruised around for about an hour. I then was about to give up on it until i saw one last unidentified signal. I checked on it and he engaged communications with me.
He offered me 1500 cr to not kill pirates. At this point im like yeah whatever dude, im getting paid. So I attack him, only to incur a bounty for doing so. As im trying my hardest to kill this dud 3 other players show up, and I die in 3 shots. At this point i decide i will try a different kind of mission since the sidewinder cant kill anything. I take a mission to get some material and bring it back before the station runs out of it. I start trying to find this material. Now I have no credits so I cant buy it. so my option is to mine it possibly.
I start jumping from system to system looking for a place to mine and buy mining equipment. I jumped around for about 2 hours and never found what I was looking for. Almost every system I check had nothing, but a big star in it. Finally I start getting frustrated, and just quit for the night. I came back today hoping I would do better. I have been playing now for 6 hours today and still haven't made a single credit or completed a single mission. I notice that there seems to be some interconnection between systems as far as fines, bounty's, and stolen goods. But why is there no data on systems before you travel to them.
I shouldn't have to discover absolutely everything for my self. If someone had already discovered it, then that data should be available for everyone. Also the market in one station should be able to look at other stations so your not just flying in the dark only to find you wasted your entire night. I'm not asking you to hand me the game and do everything for me. I am just asking that you throw me a bone so I can even get started. I also think that it sucks you didn't make everyone start over on the same level when the game launched. cause I am constantly being killed by other players with bigger and better ships.
This game lacks any kind of detail to get a new player going in it. The tutorials barley tell you how to do anything. Now bring on the Trolls cause I know all the fan-boys that have been playing for 6+ months are going to tell me I'm completely wrong. And one last thing. It took me almost 3 hours to get my thrustmaster joystick mapped and working with this game. I though I would be able to plug it in and it just work.
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Good luck, Commander!
