#12023460, By infoxicated Elite: Dangerous

infoxicated 23 Oct 2017 23:52:39 1,509 posts
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What a disaster tonight was.

I went all the way to Ray Gateway in Diaguandri to buy my Asp Explorer. Just to get a feel for it I took some lightweight cargo missions and a salvage operation that didn't seem too risky. I had to drop off cargo at a platform station above the planet where the salvage goods were, but when I went to go and do it an NPC would try to interdict me.

That failed, he appeared as I was attempting to salvage the goods and destroyed me in no time because although I could afford to buy the Asp X and kit it out a little, it wasn't nearly robust enough. I spawn at the platform station 360,000 credits worse off and try again. Same frickin' result.

Third time lucky, I get the salvage, dodge the interdiction on the way back, pick up my reward and beat a hasty retreat back to the systems where I'm on the cusp of being allied. I take a bunch of missions on my usual loop route, but when I get to one of the stations I'm in the letterbox and some big passenger freighter clips me as I crawl in because I'm still not used to the dimensions of the Asp X.

Of course, I get the fine, which means I can't land and I'm now trespassing. So I try to get back out of the station and boom, the police have destroyed my ship before I even get back out of the letterbox. I spawn at the previous station and make my way there again, they give me landing permission no problem but the second I enter the doorway all hell breaks loose and I'm destroyed again!

So now I'm 700,000 in debt after having to replace the new ship for the fourth time in the space of two hours and "upgrading" to the Asp X seems like a terrible idea!

I make a 28 jump round trip to save less than a million on a ship and end up getting skinned for more than that replacing the thing!

I wish I knew what went wrong at Wicca Town in Gateway. I tentatively went back one last time and I was able to land no problem at all, with Zero outstanding fines. I can see why people quit on this game early doors - if that had been my initial experience I would have given up too.