No, it's actually far worse than that, it's beyond utterly and completely ridiculous. Not only did I spawn in station with no missions available, I did exactly what the fanboys on here posted, safe in the knowledge that it was fanaboyism, but hell let's give it a go. Anyway, flew around for a bit, completely aimlessly, went to a new system scanned a star... And wow! Unidentified signal source! Let's check that out... So flew over, and found barrels of 'trade data' (data doesn't even come in barrels in the 21st century, they mus have really poor hard drives in the future!) So, scooped it up until my cargo bay was full, and jetted off to the nearest space station. Arrive, wait around for about 10 minutes constantly being denied docking, then get scanned and handed a 6000 credit fine for illegal cargo... Really, really big design flaw if this is the starting experience. Had been a massive fan up until now...
No, it's actually far worse than that, it's beyond utterly and completely ridiculous. Not only did I spawn in station with no missions available, I did exactly what the fanboys on here posted, safe in the knowledge that it was fanaboyism, but hell let's give it a go. Anyway, flew around for a bit, completely aimlessly, went to a new system scanned a star... And wow! Unidentified signal source! Let's check that out... So flew over, and found barrels of 'trade data' (data doesn't even come in barrels in the 21st century, they mus have really poor hard drives in the future!) So, scooped it up until my cargo bay was full, and jetted off to the nearest space station. Arrive, wait around for about 10 minutes constantly being denied docking, then get scanned and handed a 6000 credit fine for illegal cargo... Really, really big design flaw if this is the starting experience. Had been a massive fan up until now...
No, it's actually far worse than that, it's beyond utterly and completely ridiculous. Not only did I spawn in station with no missions available, I did exactly what the fanboys on here posted, safe in the knowledge that it was fanaboyism, but hell let's give it a go. Anyway, flew around for a bit, completely aimlessly, went to a new system scanned a star... And wow! Unidentified signal source! Let's check that out... So flew over, and found barrels of 'trade data' (data doesn't even come in barrels in the 21st century, they mus have really poor hard drives in the future!) So, scooped it up until my cargo bay was full, and jetted off to the nearest space station. Arrive, wait around for about 10 minutes constantly being denied docking, then get scanned and handed a 6000 credit fine for illegal cargo... Really, really big design flaw if this is the starting experience. Had been a massive fan up until now...
No, it's actually far worse than that, it's beyond utterly and completely ridiculous. Not only did I spawn in station with no missions available, I did exactly what the fanboys on here posted, safe in the knowledge that it was fanaboyism, but hell let's give it a go. Anyway, flew around for a bit, completely aimlessly, went to a new system scanned a star... And wow! Unidentified signal source! Let's check that out... So flew over, and found barrels of 'trade data' (data doesn't even come in barrels in the 21st century, they mus have really poor hard drives in the future!) So, scooped it up until my cargo bay was full, and jetted off to the nearest space station. Arrive, wait around for about 10 minutes constantly being denied docking, then get scanned and handed a 6000 credit fine for illegal cargo... Really, really big design flaw if this is the starting experience. Had been a massive fan up until now...
Go out and scan some stuff then sell it (guess why you don't have any of the data for nearby systems?). Kill some pirates. Do something....dangerous.
You can just restart the game if you're not happy with your starting system. Options/clear save.