So I've been playing the game, and I've been enjoying it for the most part. The user interface is probably one of the most cluster****ed and downright unintuitive I've ever used, and the fact I have to constantly use google screams the developers really didn't put much thought into accessibility for new players, but I digress.

I've been mining whilst doing the tutorial missions, and have a nice few ships I've been getting to know and getting fitted appropriately.

Then I try a mission where I have to escort a ship of civilians. I go there, they are all dead and out of nowhere a group of enemies start pounding the crap out of me. Ok, I guess I've got to destroy them.

No. My capacitor runs out in seconds trying to repair my shields and hull whilst I scramble trying to figure out why my weapon systems aren't doing anything. Oh, because I have absolutely no chance of destroying these things at all. I'm in a tutorial mission and I'm being attacked by things I have absolutely no chance against. The one line in the mission briefing that alluded to this was...

'If anything seems amiss report back to station'

8 words out of 100 that hint at what the mission is going to go like. When I realised I was in an unwinnable situation I attempted to warp back to my station, getting destroyed in the painfully slow process of warming up my warp engines.

Needless to say I was pissed. A tutorial mission that pits you against people you have no chance of beating. The entire mission consisted of going to a place, and then running away from it. WTF kind of tutorial is that?

So now I'm down my best ship, best modifications and my best weapons and all my ammo. All because of a terrible tutorial
mission. Needless to say It's somewhat taken a large chunk out of my interest in the game.

I have nearly 5 million credits, but I'll be spending most of that trying to refit a new ship, so I've literally just wasted the first few days of my trial. TBH I just can't be bothered trying to earn that kinda stuff back at this early stage, so I think I'm out.

/rant.