You wanted to hear other stories, so here is mine:
After a lot of exploring and doing hauling missions in my Sidewinder, I went to buy a viper and kitted that one out a bit. My goal was a Cobra though, so I didn't spend too many credits on the viper. I bought the Cobra when I could afford it, but without thinking about the insurance. It went pretty well so far. Since Gamma I died only 4 times, 3 times was in the Sidey and at least one time was because I ended up in an empty system with not enough fuel to make another jump. Only once forgot to get landing permission and managed to back up and get out before someone started shooting at me. I have not made it to anything bigger than a Cobra yet. I am aiming for an ASP next, but only after my cobra is kitted out to maximum performance. And I am really curious to see what the Python is able to do. But that will take some serious amount of time.
My Cobra is now kitted out for combat - not everything A grade, but I invested about 4 Million into it. My latest purchase were 2 medium and 2 small gimballed beam lasers and I have something like 1.5 Million credits left to cover insurance like 10 times.
I do rare runs with the 20 tons of cargo space left on it and some bounty hunting/exploring on the way to the destination clusters. Somehow I have managed to get friendly with the federation without really wanting it, but since it is like this I will stay allied with the Feds now.
A few days ago I had my first "battle" with a real Commander and his Viper. I submitted to his/her interdiction and said "hello" (which I misspelled to "helle") but only got lasers as an answer. So I thought "this is my time to die" and fought back. Unfortunately it seemed that I was lagging pretty bad, so the CMDR texted me with "you lag". I replied "sorry" "didn't ask for it" and stopped attacking him. So we both went out of that with a good percentage of our hulls missing, but still alive. I really feel sorry that I lagged and seemed to have gained an advantage, but on the other hand I did not ask for this fight either. But I have learned from the experience. I will never again waste time typing some text to a Commander who interdicts me.
The next time I died was because I tried one of these 100k assassination missions. Turned out to be an Elite Anaconda and my skills are not up to that yet. As soon as the Anacondas laser show began, I started popping my shield cells. Much much too early, so I was out of them when I really needed them. My son was watching while I fought the Anaconda and he recommended fleeing to me several times. Of course he was right, I just did not want to give in. I find it funny how upset I get in a fight with an opponent that is either human or seems to be very dangerous. I mean, it's just a game, nothing to really get upset about. Even the long hours I put into it were all just because of the fun of it, so there really is nothing I can loose, just experience to gain. And still I have my hands shaking and my heart pumping after such a fight.
After a lot of exploring and doing hauling missions in my Sidewinder, I went to buy a viper and kitted that one out a bit. My goal was a Cobra though, so I didn't spend too many credits on the viper. I bought the Cobra when I could afford it, but without thinking about the insurance. It went pretty well so far. Since Gamma I died only 4 times, 3 times was in the Sidey and at least one time was because I ended up in an empty system with not enough fuel to make another jump. Only once forgot to get landing permission and managed to back up and get out before someone started shooting at me. I have not made it to anything bigger than a Cobra yet. I am aiming for an ASP next, but only after my cobra is kitted out to maximum performance. And I am really curious to see what the Python is able to do. But that will take some serious amount of time.
My Cobra is now kitted out for combat - not everything A grade, but I invested about 4 Million into it. My latest purchase were 2 medium and 2 small gimballed beam lasers and I have something like 1.5 Million credits left to cover insurance like 10 times.
I do rare runs with the 20 tons of cargo space left on it and some bounty hunting/exploring on the way to the destination clusters. Somehow I have managed to get friendly with the federation without really wanting it, but since it is like this I will stay allied with the Feds now.
A few days ago I had my first "battle" with a real Commander and his Viper. I submitted to his/her interdiction and said "hello" (which I misspelled to "helle") but only got lasers as an answer. So I thought "this is my time to die" and fought back. Unfortunately it seemed that I was lagging pretty bad, so the CMDR texted me with "you lag". I replied "sorry" "didn't ask for it" and stopped attacking him. So we both went out of that with a good percentage of our hulls missing, but still alive. I really feel sorry that I lagged and seemed to have gained an advantage, but on the other hand I did not ask for this fight either. But I have learned from the experience. I will never again waste time typing some text to a Commander who interdicts me.
The next time I died was because I tried one of these 100k assassination missions. Turned out to be an Elite Anaconda and my skills are not up to that yet. As soon as the Anacondas laser show began, I started popping my shield cells. Much much too early, so I was out of them when I really needed them. My son was watching while I fought the Anaconda and he recommended fleeing to me several times. Of course he was right, I just did not want to give in. I find it funny how upset I get in a fight with an opponent that is either human or seems to be very dangerous. I mean, it's just a game, nothing to really get upset about. Even the long hours I put into it were all just because of the fun of it, so there really is nothing I can loose, just experience to gain. And still I have my hands shaking and my heart pumping after such a fight.
) and had to re buy an Asp. Now all I have to do is re find the stations so I can upgrade it again.
