New player here that started a week ago. Today I warped into another system and a freighter fleet was being attacked by pirates. Ok, I’ll be your savior! Almost die in a firefight with SEVEN enemies, and what happens at the end? “Civilian fleet engaged. sentinels on route” um what? I just SAVED YOU from the pirates trying to kill you, and your thanks is… Sicking these damn robots on me? Let me guess why… A stray laser hit your shield while I was barrel rolling in 19 different directions fending off these pirates… FOR FREE! I didn’t last much longer being out of fuel and 15% shield left, but I’m sure those very nice traders made good use of my scrap metal from my ship.

Yeah, it’s a hard pass from me, from now on, yall enjoy being a smoldering wreck on the ground.

Just went into the Anomaly for one of the first times – I only got this game recently and haven’t explored the multiplayer aspect at all, so when a player walked up in front of me I jumped up and down a few times to acknowledge them because I didn’t know how to interact. This seems to have pleased them, because they gave me 5 Fusion Ignitors, which are worth so many units that my jaw actually dropped (78 MILLION. I’ve managed to accumulate about 6 million total, including what I’ve spent on ships and 1 freighter). It was incredibly generous of them, so Theron, if you see this, you just gave a newbie a huge head start in this game. Thank you, and if there was some reciprocal action I was meant to take that I missed I apologise, and I hope you don’t feel slighted!