I'm in.
My very first game was going pretty well. (Normal difficulty, no easy crap for me.) I got lots of free scrap through the first two sectors, found two more crew, and upgraded my shields and bought a shield recharger. Most enemy ships couldn't touch me through that. I even looted some weapons and a drone, although kept falling just short of having enough cash to buy a drone system at each such store. And I couldn't power the weapons - I had lasers that took 2 and 3 power, but never quite scraped together the cash to push the weapons system to 5.
Until... at the exit node for sector 3, I managed to run myself out of jump fuel. So I sat there at the exit node, while Rebel ship after ship kept arriving. I ran out of missiles too, and then couldn't outrace the shield recharge rate of any enemy ship. This went on for like an hour, neither me nor the enemy ships dealing any damage to each other, and eventually each rebel would run away. Finally a rebel Elite Fighter arrived with enough weapons juice to put me out of my misery. Scored 910 on the first game.
My one complaint - where do you click to sell consumables at stores, or is it not possible? Several times I wanted to sell off surplus missiles and drone programs to buy a more durable good, but the option doesn't seem to be available.
My very first game was going pretty well. (Normal difficulty, no easy crap for me.) I got lots of free scrap through the first two sectors, found two more crew, and upgraded my shields and bought a shield recharger. Most enemy ships couldn't touch me through that. I even looted some weapons and a drone, although kept falling just short of having enough cash to buy a drone system at each such store. And I couldn't power the weapons - I had lasers that took 2 and 3 power, but never quite scraped together the cash to push the weapons system to 5.
Until... at the exit node for sector 3, I managed to run myself out of jump fuel. So I sat there at the exit node, while Rebel ship after ship kept arriving. I ran out of missiles too, and then couldn't outrace the shield recharge rate of any enemy ship. This went on for like an hour, neither me nor the enemy ships dealing any damage to each other, and eventually each rebel would run away. Finally a rebel Elite Fighter arrived with enough weapons juice to put me out of my misery. Scored 910 on the first game.
My one complaint - where do you click to sell consumables at stores, or is it not possible? Several times I wanted to sell off surplus missiles and drone programs to buy a more durable good, but the option doesn't seem to be available.