This year's Darwin Gaming Award goes to......

[Martok]

buys hauler and leaves 5k in the bank

buys 4.99k worth of fish, risks a flight across 3 zones to make a 8k profit and get some spending money

sells guns to lighten ship

comes out of hyperspace into a war zone, flies straight thru conflict area as shots ping off hull

jump into final destination with pirates in pursuit

get to within 1km of trading port and is denied access

spend the most exhilirating 8 mins in my PC gaming history flying around the space station trying to avoid pirates and get landing permission at same time

head for docking port, pirate actually follows me in, shooting me within the station itself

stations defenses kick in and destroy him as i land

sell fish

laugh and go make cup of tea with shaking hands

awesome

That was great, geek.  Thanks for sharing. 

[JudgeDredd]

id got used to dealing in the sexy items - crop harvesters, personal weapons, marine supplies - i didnt want my first job to be a bio-waste run but thats what happened and then fish, i actually plotted courses and worked out all kinds of routes to go beyond Chi Hercules last night only to exit the station and get 'Frameshift has malfunctioned'

i thought it was a bug or an error - turns out i was trying to jump beyond the 'demo' bubble into unknown space - its about 0.2 light years outside the border!! thats what led to the fish jump all the way back to civilisation at Aulin. I had a feeling id have trouble docking, its been all over the beta forums that the more new people join the bigger the queues are at popular stations not far from the starting point.

So now i have 13k, a full tank of diesel and im looking at all the mineral trading activity underneath Aulin that looks quite tasty

Any reason why you play online instead of solo?

[undercovergeek]

id got used to dealing in the sexy items - crop harvesters, personal weapons, marine supplies - i didnt want my first job to be a bio-waste run but thats what happened and then fish, i actually plotted courses and worked out all kinds of routes to go beyond Chi Hercules last night only to exit the station and get 'Frameshift has malfunctioned'

i thought it was a bug or an error - turns out i was trying to jump beyond the 'demo' bubble into unknown space - its about 0.2 light years outside the border!! thats what led to the fish jump all the way back to civilisation at Aulin. I had a feeling id have trouble docking, its been all over the beta forums that the more new people join the bigger the queues are at popular stations not far from the starting point.

So now i have 13k, a full tank of diesel and im looking at all the mineral trading activity underneath Aulin that looks quite tasty

Any reason why you play online instead of solo?

its funny you say that, when you and JH were the first buyers my main concern was griefers and guilds and bullying in MP - but of all the games i have on my system, all of them burst to life, become more vibrant and enjoyable when there is competition and human interraction. The unpredicatability of human opponents, human pirates, the camaradarie of seeing fellow traders docking and exiting and just knowing its an 'alive' universe operating at the whim of its human players, all sat at home, headphones on doing their bit in the game just like me, make not just the 'game' but the very fact that its even possible a wonder and a joy to me

'course this all goes out of the window when some c*nt blows me up with a hull full of rifles im shipping to a civil war!!