Totally Lost

[Gakun]

Ok, so... This is my first thread, and i'm full new on all of this. I've played Freelancer since 2011, single player only and no mods. It has been one week and a half since i started playing Discovery, my first impressions were totally good. I met a guy who showed me how to mine and everything. I never saw him anymore. I met another guy, he helped me and he instructed me to restart, the basics of credit transactions and now i have a DSE ID, a Mammoth and a trade route.

I have no friends to play with, the few friends i have aren't into space sims, especially into a 2003 game. So i'm here, alone, doing the same trade route for days, being an easy target to pirates since it's a lone transport. The last guy who helped me is cool, but i get the feeling i'm too annoying for him, so i stopped asking questions. I've read rules, several threads, faction recruiting forms, etc, but i still don't know what i can do. I liked to think i could be a bounty hunter, but i'm far to having an appropriate ship and equipment.

I can't see any good things in me since i'm this huge and very slow target to shoot at and i don't see what benefit any faction would gain with me in it. Also, i live in a s*itty country, so i have a very bad internet connection (once i travelled an entire trade route, and when i was just docking at the station i was supposed to go, the connection failed and i went back to the place i was before travelling all that distance).

I'm not sure if this thread is in the right place, feel free to delete it or something if I did something wrong.

So... Is this normal for new comers? I don't know if it's just me. Thank's in advance.