Interesting theory, I have never heard of anything like this in the USA although Verizon and their allies definitely wanted to make it happen. But they were denied the last 2 times they tried and it caused a lot of commotion that even the president here got involved. It almost sounds like a breach of network neutrality rules. Unfortunately I have no way to test this and I dont know anyone working at Cox cable locally. Plus their tech support is less than worthless for anything aside from registering a modem mac address.

I have no standing because I have not joined any corps. This still does not answer my question. Is there way to get access to terminals aside from joining the corps? I keep hearing that they are supposed to available to us unincorporated players but so far this has proven to be false.

Negative, it is not my PC. I did figure out that the disconnect issue only happens when I am in the terminal. I assume it boots me on purpose but its annoying. I am sitting there reading or looking at the market and I get booted. Can we extend the timer on this?

So I have been playing a few days now and here is are my current observations:

1 - The starting reward of 40k EP for new players was in the form of a gift that you had to click on. But I never figured this out. There are several issues to this. #1 the tiny text... at the end of the tutorial you are told you would get some rewards, but it is unclear what they are. The icons for the rewards are small and you cant really tell what they are. When you hover over it takes a while before text pops up telling you what they are. The 1st time I ran the tutorial I did know a description would pop up on hover... also, the gift is plopped in the background of the terminal screen... I had no idea this was a "gift box." I just looked like a background shape, almost like a logo. I had no idea I needed to click on it until people told me on the bug forum. These are all easy to fix and would help the newbie experience a lot. Again, the font size issue is a problem. Just look at the steam forums.. There is a complaint every 25 or so posts.

2 - Its desolate... in my near 4 days of play, I think i have seen a total of about 6 or 7 players in game and I ventured all the way out to public gamma (which I was not able to get into... due to faction issues... but its owned by a player faction so I have no idea what to do...). This is hard to fix without population, but it can be simulated somewhat. See #3 below.

3 - The economy seems dead. I am not sure if this is game wide but almost nothing has changed in the market the last 4 days among the stuff I was monitoring (stuff that newbies might need). The same orders are still up, no one is buying resources (like ore or liquid) and the only way to offload them seems to be to sell into existing orders. This is ok, but there is a problem. If I want to buy anything, its very expensive which explains why much of the stuff on sale has not moved in 4 days of me watching (resources especially) which is also why I tried to venture to public gamma only to be turned away.

Take a look at X2/3 (the best AI run econ simulators I have played to date); adding AI caravans and traders can help the game ambiance. Instead of infinite stuff available in the terminals (like ammo and low mechs), make the AI go out and earn it or allow players to sell the resources to the terminal. As the terminal build reserves, its price for said resource should decline and vice versa. As supply of ammo and light bots builds up, price should come down which would be very nice for us newbies who want to try out other faction bots early on.

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You have a good game going here. I am enjoying it as much as Eve if not more since I dont need to worry about subscription fees. I hope to pop into PvP in the next week or so. It took about a day to get a good handle on ammo types and weaknesses of various bots. I just cant tell what they are by looking yet. I have to pull up the info to see what it is.

Oh wow I would have never figured that out. I thought that was just part of the background. Thanks!

How do we close/delete this thread?

nope, i just started 2 nights ago. I have no alts.

Now that I think about... it is a bit strange that they give you a Baphomet but you cant even drive it for another 4-5 days lol. And only if you invest all the points into Thelodica robot control and basic robotics...

EDIT: Ok Vile helped me figure out that there was a gift that I had not opened lol. Inside was 40k EP, 200 credits, and a T4 demobilizer.

I would have never figure all that out if you guys didnt point it out. Thanks!
Now I need to ponder how to use all that EP!

Yea I saw that too. But I wanted it in table form. If you look at mine, you can search and sort them which makes it much easier to compare robots.

40,000? No I only got 1440 at the start. Im sitting on 1920 right now.

LoL i wish... 70U cargo is awesome. But I have 480 EP's left and I need

Basic Robot: 1200 EP
Industrial Robot Control 2, 3, 4: I have no idea how much those cost...

It will probably take me a week to get enough EP's just for that. That said, my new Argano is awesome compared to my old rig.

Thank you for the guide, it was very helpful.

The only modification I would make is to note that us newbies dont have any money to buy an Argano from the start. I only have a Promethius and Baphomet from completing the tutorial and after about 6 quests i barely had about 100k NIC which I used for a standard geoscanner, and a bunch of charges. Your guide helped by reminding me what charges I needed so that was a + and I did learn about those other upgrade parts that I didnt know about. I also figured out the differences between scanners and such. I think the next step is to get an argano so I need to save about 300k.

I did notice that ore orders are super cheap on the market or was just in the area that I am in? so I am still not sure how to make money yet. I assume we need to refine them and then sell. I also found some strange stuff while mining like titan-50 (PL-10) and ilmenite. I figured out that the first is just a rare form of titan but there is nothing on the market about ilmenite.

Thanks again.