Newcomer / Intro not much on the Bulletin Board

[burtoner]

Hi, only joined on release, got used to playing around, I have very little credits 266 to be exact, and I can't get any missions most of the time, or let alone when I do see a mission it says "Quantity 4" and it won't let me accept it..
This is getting rather boring..

 

[Painkiller]

Find missions that are delivery, meaning you don't need to spend money on them, just pickup cargo, go to the destination and deliver. Start taking notes on prices in systems. Demand high, medium and low means system is buying that item for high, medium and low price. Here you should bring items from systems that have supply high, medium and low (this sistem sell the comodity for low , medium and high price but still under the price of demand).
You should make some decisions how to play, ED will not give you free boost. Game is how you make it, if you don't show interest in it, it will become boring as you said.
Try to play it and give it a chance

 

[ArnieDadrink]

There are few Missions at the start, plus check if you lowered your reputation while "playing around" (press 4 and see if it says you are neutral to federation or wherever you area you are in), if it is it might be worth wiping and restarting rather than repairing rep while still poor and in a starter ship.

I have also noticed that when I am in areas visited by fewer people I tend to get very few or no missions at all and moving closer to more populated areas helps too.