Newcomer / Intro Please fix the game... :(

[Evyl Minkey]

Seems a bit wrong to be able to destroy any ship with max health and shields, with a crippled ship, just by ramming!

Oddly it makes perfect sense to me. People have been usuing damaged vehicles like this since it was first possible. Particularly in naval engagements.

 

[SpydersByte]

Sounds like you went out without the insurance covered. I'm sure you've read a thousand times not to do that so I can't have much sympathy here. I do find one thing odd though: you're a space sim vet of 25 years and you've never seen one without a save point? I'm a space sim pilot for 2 decades as well and I've NEVER seen one with a save point, this isn't an RPG. JumpGate, Black Prophecy, EvE, ED, I don't remember any space sim giving me save slots, these are persistent worlds we live in.

 

[TYK]

oddly it makes perfect sense to me. People have been usuing damaged vehicles like this since it was first possible. Particularly in naval engagements.

khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

 

[CMDR Goro]

Oh lol.
I did that once, bought transporter for my 1st mill... got blown up while docking (no shields + new, less maneuverable ship = )
Yeah, started from scratch but now im smarter, i ALWAYS keep insurance money .

 

[Sapient6]

I know it's mostly the fault of the players but should not design a game where people want to rage quit.

The mechanic needs to be more obvious to new players. I knew about it before hand because I read the forums, but in game the indications aren't as clear as some of the tsk tsk posts in these threads claim.

 

[Universal Evil]

The mechanic needs to be more obvious to new players. I knew about it before hand because I read the forums, but in game the indications aren't as clear as some of the tsk tsk posts in these threads claim.

well I don't think there needs to be a seperate warning ingame that "if you take off now you'll risk everything" however they might want to make it VERY clear to everybody when they first install the launcher for the game that it is importen that they keep them self updated and read the forums before doing to much flying and then perhaps make a small section of the forum for newcomers and mark it as "New players NEED to read and understand this BEFORE starting the game" then this section of forum could have threads issuing these basic thing like ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH CREDITS TO REBUY YOUR SHIP (It's called insurance and is the only way to make a "save game" in ED)

I too like you actually spend aprox 5-6 hours reading the forums after I purchased the game(Was a beta backer though) to get some info as to how to play the game and even ask a couple of time how to proceed with a mission to be able to complete it, because not all missions are easy to figure out and whether or not people play in Open or group or solo they need to be updated about the game since This game is far from finished which is a good reason to keep checking the forum at least once a week...

New info could be that at some point in the future Fdev wil change the condissions of how the use of your ships guns will course you heat to go up and eventually damage you ships module if you just squese you trigger finger constantly and don't pay attention to your heat... (This is being tested in the beta version right now but has been delayed until later version than originately announced...)