Soon after understanding how to play Elite Dangerous I spotted the flight assist interface called ASTRA, that was almost a year ago. Since then I have been hooked on the game as many of the commands were done on my behalf. I had no need to remember numerous key presses or control pad buttons, to carry out what seemed simple tasks. ASTRA was by my side and always willing to follow her Commander's spoken words. Yes, there have been hiccups when updates were introduced, but as a rule, ASTRA stood by me and loyal to the end.
Until yesterday. Something went very wrong and I found myself screaming at the computer as I tried to recall the keys that would do my bidding. Ship lights did not exist and I had to fumble around in the dark, not easy at the outpost stations. I was doing a few trips between stars and stations, and once I was safely docked I went below and hit the button for Station Services, suddenly my Hardpoints displayed and were ready for action, I was dreading a visit from the station authorities. With missions onboard, I was ready to go, but I had no access to the Galaxy Map or the System Map, ASTRA did not respond at any time during the session. I remembered how to launch Warp Drive, but then the final straw was ending Supercruise. The blue words, Safe to Disengage, popped up, but no matter how many times I shouted at ASTRA, I flew past the station and had to loop the loop and try again - what! Thrusters and boost were two other commands that did not exist via ASTRA.
All I wanted to do was make some credits while there seemed to be an absence of NPC's trying to interdict me. Two days ago, they appeared on every trip I had, seven, one after the other, and not only that, the seventh trip I had to fight three interdictions one after the other, failing on the last and having to fork out the insurance cost of 1.6M credits. It was at that point I gave up.
But while ASTRA gave me little support yesterday, I still completed ten trips with no interdictions, earning 100,002,354 credits.
Until yesterday. Something went very wrong and I found myself screaming at the computer as I tried to recall the keys that would do my bidding. Ship lights did not exist and I had to fumble around in the dark, not easy at the outpost stations. I was doing a few trips between stars and stations, and once I was safely docked I went below and hit the button for Station Services, suddenly my Hardpoints displayed and were ready for action, I was dreading a visit from the station authorities. With missions onboard, I was ready to go, but I had no access to the Galaxy Map or the System Map, ASTRA did not respond at any time during the session. I remembered how to launch Warp Drive, but then the final straw was ending Supercruise. The blue words, Safe to Disengage, popped up, but no matter how many times I shouted at ASTRA, I flew past the station and had to loop the loop and try again - what! Thrusters and boost were two other commands that did not exist via ASTRA.
All I wanted to do was make some credits while there seemed to be an absence of NPC's trying to interdict me. Two days ago, they appeared on every trip I had, seven, one after the other, and not only that, the seventh trip I had to fight three interdictions one after the other, failing on the last and having to fork out the insurance cost of 1.6M credits. It was at that point I gave up.
But while ASTRA gave me little support yesterday, I still completed ten trips with no interdictions, earning 100,002,354 credits.
