Ok, to start with this isn't a whine, mostly a 'huh, this game is something isn't it post'. So I decided to start trading in this patch. Vahadar sold me a nice Carrack and that should be a good trade boat. To learn how I started with my Avenger, then moved to my MSR, and then into my Carrack. Get up to around 200k, enough for a full load in the Carrack. Fill her up with distilled spirits in MT decide to take it to Orison to sell. Jump to Orison, takes a day and half but hey I can do laundry. Get to Orison and realize I have no idea where the space port is. Fly around thinking I will wait until I see it show up in my comm box, then follow the landing prompt. Fly around and keep hitting restricted airspace, which takes over my ship and puts me somewhere 'safe'. Get the tower in my comm box, call it in, see my landing site, fly towards it, it is in restricted space, my ship blows up and I watch my cargo fall into the gas giant. Ok. Fine.
Build back up to 200k again. Fly to Bud's Growery and fill up on stims and processed food. Living large. Walk back out to be ship in a mild wind, drop the cargo ramp and my ship blows away. A long long way away, at the longest as I chased it it was 7 kilometers away, but eventually it stopped and I caught up to it. It is flipped upside down but otherwise unscratched but I can't find a way back in.The wind picks it up and moves it near some rocks, I run over, climb up and miss the jump, run back and the ship has blown away again, when it gets to 5 k away I give up and log off. Back to zero.
Build back up to 200k. Ok, this time no planet surface with rocks on the ground to kill my ship, go to a station. Land dead center on the pad. No wind, no storm, clear weather. Run in and buy cargo. Come back out my ship has moved on the pad and is now hanging over the end so the ramp want reach down low enough. Just barely too high to jump. Check missions, there is a mission with a box here at the station, I can grab the box and make the jump. Run inside, grab box, come back and my ship is kilometers away and moving fast. Again, no storm. No wind. This time I listen, the message is clear. I am not meant to be a trader. Back to fighters for me.
Before anyone asks yes the engine was off, no I had not punched in on the med bed. Only trading after all, why would I need that. Yes I know that is dumb. Just wanted to beat those in the replies.
Build back up to 200k again. Fly to Bud's Growery and fill up on stims and processed food. Living large. Walk back out to be ship in a mild wind, drop the cargo ramp and my ship blows away. A long long way away, at the longest as I chased it it was 7 kilometers away, but eventually it stopped and I caught up to it. It is flipped upside down but otherwise unscratched but I can't find a way back in.The wind picks it up and moves it near some rocks, I run over, climb up and miss the jump, run back and the ship has blown away again, when it gets to 5 k away I give up and log off. Back to zero.
Build back up to 200k. Ok, this time no planet surface with rocks on the ground to kill my ship, go to a station. Land dead center on the pad. No wind, no storm, clear weather. Run in and buy cargo. Come back out my ship has moved on the pad and is now hanging over the end so the ramp want reach down low enough. Just barely too high to jump. Check missions, there is a mission with a box here at the station, I can grab the box and make the jump. Run inside, grab box, come back and my ship is kilometers away and moving fast. Again, no storm. No wind. This time I listen, the message is clear. I am not meant to be a trader. Back to fighters for me.
Before anyone asks yes the engine was off, no I had not punched in on the med bed. Only trading after all, why would I need that. Yes I know that is dumb. Just wanted to beat those in the replies.
