Quote:If it's going to take weeks of grinding before it's any fun, I'd rather play another game.
Well yes, this is an MMORPG. The 'fun' comes from building a character(s) and taking the time to put effort into your ship, character background, and gameplay style.
This is a role playing server with an ongoing storyline. The cannon is extremely important to maintain in order to keep this little 'universe' together. In other words we dont just want random newbs popping up with battleships blowing everybody up after an hour of gameplay.
Kids these days, they need an attention span, even for gamers!
Which means take your time, get experience, gain knowledge and wealth. There's so much to this game it will take you years to see it all and learn everything.
And like everything in life, you gotta start out small and work your way up the ladder.
So for money, even the fastest money, you gotta break the lowest pay scale and get a transport. That way you can at least ship goods, and look for good 'routes' to pick up stuff and sell them somewhere else. Once you make some good money, its true, a lot of great ships and experiences open up.
There are also miners of all sorts of ores and metals dying for transports to sell their ore too. When this happens, everyone makes something.
But if you seek instant gratification, you won't find it here. These characters do take time, effort, practice, and planning. Thats why most of us play.
So don't think of it as a place to instantly have the best of everything, cuz if that were the case, everyone would have whatever and the coolest stuff would be worthless and old news. Like any game of this kind, you gotta be born first to live