This game is not friendly to newcomers?

I wish I could go back to my early days, when I didn't know how anything worked.

It was more exciting back then lol.

What platform do you play on, OP? There's plenty of people on any of them that would be happy to give you a hand if you needed it.
 
I did tutorials. They do not answer my questions, so dont be rude to me. Trust me I know how to fly. I could land perfectly in this game if it would allow me to. Flying in this game is not very hard. Clearly you implied that Im too incompetent to play this, judging by your condescending reply, but that is not the case, thank you very much.
I'm not implying that you're incompetent. I'm implying that you want to play a game that doesn't require any effort to understand.
 
Thank you for the reply but I dont think its worth my time lol. I might know how to dock now but I still will never learn anything to progress in this game, or how to travel around smoothly. It took me 3 hours to get to a destination because I flew past it every time I jumped and eventually just flew ordinarily for like 5000 km which took FOREVER! lol. but thanks still
Your ship should have a couple of modules that will help with this
- "supercruise assist" which helps you get to the destination successfully
- "advanced docking computer" which will handle getting you in and out of stations safely

Those will help you with the travel.

If you're flying past too much, throttle back - controlling the ship in supercruise at high speeds is trickier, if you keep the throttle at or below 75% it'll be much easier to get started.
 
I did not do anything illegal. I accidentally pressed Y on Xbox controller and it overheated and I exploded and respawned in the detention centre (for whatever reason). I did not ask for docking permission, I didnt know I had to, how would I know that? Not like the game tells me I have to do it or how to do it lol. It said something with docking permission restored once I had backed out after receiving the warning. Someone had this problem too and all the replies said to just drive faster when entering, and that should prevent from getting a warning. They said nothing about docking permission either. They also said I couldn't get fined for trespassing. Since the game says nothing about it, and this community told me you can do all these things to help my problem then I have no reason not to trust them.
Every station you approach tells you not to attempt landing without docking permission.Don't blame the game if you ignore the warnings.No doubt these sources whom you have no reason not to trust will have told you about the free Anaconda at Hutton.
 
I did not do anything illegal. I accidentally pressed Y on Xbox controller and it overheated and I exploded and respawned in the detention centre (for whatever reason). I did not ask for docking permission, I didnt know I had to, how would I know that? Not like the game tells me I have to do it or how to do it lol. It said something with docking permission restored once I had backed out after receiving the warning. Someone had this problem too and all the replies said to just drive faster when entering, and that should prevent from getting a warning. They said nothing about docking permission either. They also said I couldn't get fined for trespassing. Since the game says nothing about it, and this community told me you can do all these things to help my problem then I have no reason not to trust them.
Play the tutorials first
 
Go back. Try again. If you've done the tutorials and you're still having a problem, you must have missed something - which is fine, learning process. Try it again. You'll get there.

But yes, it is tricky at the start, there's a lot to learn. Stick at it. You'll be wondering soon why you had any bother at all.
 
But then, I dunno. Do you post a thread like this after playing a game that's clearly in-depth after 2 hours? I'm ... sceptical ... that help in game would help in this case.
Nothing wrong with posting after 2 hours saying it's frustrating and asking for advice - lots of knowledge here.

Must be said that people who come to the forums saying things are impossible tend to get a worse response than others. And in DD - where there are FC to discuss - we just don't have the bandwidth right now - these angels on pin heads won't count themselves ;)
 
@Scareth, There is a rake of tutorials that will get you pointing in roughly the right direction, there is also a dedicated section of the forums for new players, most of the stumbling blocks you will encounter will have been discussed so you can almost treat that section of the forum as a FAQ, in the banner for that section there is a link to a discord server galactic academy or something similar.

Once you've got over the basics of launch, fly, jump, dock you can look at taking on missions and doing some trading / cargo or passenger missions / fighting / mining / exploring whatever, basically you are free to pick and chose what you do. The game has a very complex political engine running behind the scenes, the so called background simulation, learning a bit about this will make the game make more sense to you. Essentially in most starports there are a number of factions offering missions, you'll have a standing with each faction - reputation. Doing good stuff for the faction gets you a gain in reputation, doing bad stuff against the faction lowers your reputation with them. The various missions each faction offers usually have a reputation requirement on them, the better the missions rewards the more demanding the reputation requirements will be. Essentially they aren't going to award the juiciest contracts to folks they don't really like. As you build up a bit of reputation, you will get better paying contracts, and you'll end up with a bit of money in the bank. You can then upgrade your ship, and start to be savvy, curry some favour with local factions, then it all sort of dovetails and gains momentum.

When I was a noob I made my first real money doing missions running small amounts of narcotics into starports, I also did some ground assault missions for the same guys who were giving me drug courier missions. Both of those play styles paid well so I could then upgrade my ship and take on conflict zones. Another thing I used to do was go to high Resourse Extraction Sites, mining sites in asteroid tings around planets, and shoot up pirates. In High res you get cops present, so there is a way of learning to use the cops to your advantage essentially as wingmen, you find a ship that is WANTED (target it and scan it, make sure you see the wanted on it, or you'll become wanted yourself if you shoot it, and all kinds of firepower gets targetted at you) so you can then shoot it, with the help of the police you kill much bigger ships, which have higher bounties on them, much quicker and with much less chance of getting killed. If you do the bounty hunting in a system you are regularly visiting, yougain rep by handing in those bounties, then you can get better paying missions.

I'm not going to turn this into an absolute great wall of text, I think its currently just a parapet and a nice place to stop, but by all means, after you have done the tutorials, have a look around, read some threads, ask some questions, and hopefully find yourself immersed in the game.
 
Your first mistake was trusting this community.

Thats not fair. People here always help. Yes some joke and have fun. Some are obnoxious. But thats life.
But generally most people here do help and this thread is an example of that. What else would you have anyone here do for the OP, short of tie his shoe laces for him and do his taxes?

Landing your Ship in ED is BASIC, i let my 8 year old nephew Play on my ED account and he mastered the landing without any help from me. Its not rocket science.

OP just need to work it out and stop complaining.
 
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