Armaden

It was a good suggestion, I just went a step further and bought a Dragonfly and upgraded it until it was space flight capable. Not the best space ship, but it did make it to sanctuary (on the 3rd try getting out of atmosphere). The problem with industry is there's no point in trying it with the economy the way it is. Mining and daily login is the only way to make any money as a new player. There is no starting out industry loop gameplay, at least one that you can make money. Typical MMO's you start out producing at a loss but gain experience so there's some sort of incentive. Here you just throw credits into the fire and watch it burn. I get that they needed to make changes to industry and the reasoning behind it. But there's two problems here; first if you're making a drastic change like that you probably need to do a full wipe and second you need to have other gameplay loops in place. Full wipe is a double edged sword though. All those players that have invested so much time in Alpha and Beta would not be happy to lose all that progression and then have to start over with the new system as it stands. On a more positive note, here's my awesome Dragonfly. lol

I can tell you that as a new player the only thing worth doing is mining ore to sell. It's not worth it to make anything. You know you can't even completely recreate the starter speeder with the nanocrafter? (Mine somehow got corrupted from compactification). It requires headlights. You can buy them for 10k a piece, to make them requires a 200k schematic. 200k! For what? The market is flooded with headlights, but no buy orders. Maybe I'm missing something. I was hoping that it would be possible to play solo or with a couple of friends but it seems unlikely. I like the idea of schematics, but it looks like they are priced to slow down "end game" players. I'll probably screw around with it another week or two, but kind of disappointed that I backed it at this point. Of course I've backed stuff that never saw the light of day so it could be worse. I was enjoying it for a while anyway. I'm guessing that you need years worth of skills to get past the break even point of manufacturing or refining. I can only assume that's the disconnect and they want new players to be dependent on orgs. That's a long time to play space minecraft.