The first thing is that, most of the really simple stuff I'm looking for answers to I can't find anything about.
Like for instance, it took me forty five minutes to figure out what a mining probe was because there just literally is no description of what it is anywhere. I finally found some info on it when I stumbled across a page describing how to use the deploy mjigger.
Yet there are literally thousands of pages about space combat, and I still get owned every time I try to fight even just 1 ship.
So I have a list of questions that I can't find answers to and I'm hoping someone can help me because, for the first time ever, the internets and google have failed me.
1. Answering a distress call. I know how to do the materials ones where you deliver stuff to a planet, but I tried to do a rescue a pilot and I arrived on location with 100 seconds to spare... but there were four ships. How do I find which ship to rescue? How do I rescue them? Like... how do I do this one?
2. Is there some list somewhere that has descriptions of what things are AND what they do like mining probe: a deployable object that mines asteroids.
3. Where are these supposed pure platinum asteroids?
I read somewhere that supposedly everyone uses the same universe file, and that therefore, all objects in the game are in the same locations, yet I can't find a single site anywhere that I can just look up the locations of things.
4. What faction/guild/group am I?
I thought I was navy, but sometimes navy are yellow, sometimes red, sometimes green. SO WTF? Am I some other faction?
Can I change this faction/guild/group? How? Where?
5. Is there a map or list or something somewhere that will tell me which systems are full of enemies and which one aren't?
6. I keep reading about "warfronts" where are these?
7. How do I get a military ship?
can I have more than one ship?
How?
8. Also, kind-of-sort-of a question but not.
Other than planets and stuff near the jump gates, every sector seems completely empty which is super discouraging to "exploration" because I have no idea whether this empty area is the same empty area I just looked at two jumps ago. So Like I want to FIND hidden planets but its incredibly boring and discouraging jumping around empty sectors finding nothing... not even new asteroids.. just nothing. Am i missing something? is my game broke?
I know some of these things are probably answered somewhere else, but I'm getting pretty frustrated that I just dropped some of what little cash I have on this game and I end up spending 80%+ of my time with the game minimized while i search for answers online. I mean, the in game tutuorials WERE really helpful, but only to a point. Yet some of the game seems really flawed. Like i've played some MMO's and one really simple feature that is missing from this game is just simple descriptions for items. Its super frustrating to have to google what a really simple item is just because the game doesn't have an in game description.
I'm fascinated with the mechanics of the game but these really simple things are becoming a huge detriment. Like I'm on the verge of just deleting the whole thing and forgetting about it.
Any how, thanks in advance for the help, and sorry about the rant
The wormhole in Sol is no secret ... it's very, very close to the Sun (and getting through it in one piece is an accomplishment in itself). As for Riftspace, you can find it as part of the Quest for Peace (the current method of scripting a quest doesn't allow for some of the messaging of earlier Evochron games).
