I’m new to the game after being away for a long time. I’m really enjoying myself and taking it slow to really understand game mechanics and enjoy the journey. When shooting meteors in space for tritium, gold, etc. I keep accidentally shooting other ships passing by. This creates an “act of piracy” which lowers my standing (not sure what the implications of this are) and then calls sentinel ships in that shoot at me. Is there a way to avoid this or let the ship know I shot them by accident? It’s obnoxious and screwing with my chill exploration vibe.

I was doing the pirate escape role-play that all the content creators on Youtube are doing. I had a lot of bad luck, so it took about 30 hrs to get to the final jump to safety. Before I did it, I had a clean up and got rid of all my old ships, as I had found a really nice S-class Sentinel ship.

Before the jump, I put all the tech I could in my inventory because everything in the tech slots gets broken when you do the jump.

The jump was successful. I landed on a nice planet and set off to find my ship nearby. As soon as I got on it, I started putting back all the tech and repairing the things I had to leave in the tech slots until I got to the brain, which was broken and caused the ship to be inoperative.

Now I needed to get a hyaline brain and take it to a monolith before I could use my ship, but I’m on a normal planet with no corrupted sentinels and no ship to reach one. What’s worse, it was a planet with no aliens that come and land. I don’t know about whether it had any crashed ships, but I didn’t find any in 4 hours. Finally, after wandering around the planet aimlessly for 4 hrs, I found a planetary archive, so was able to get a temporary ship.

That’s not the end of the story, I spent another three hours going to different dissonant systems and planets to try and get the brain. Some worked as far as getting the brain, but the brain wouldn’t activate to find the monolith, and some dissonant systems didn’t have any corrupted sentinel planets.

That was 7 hrs of frustration after my elation at finally making the jump to a new life, easily avoided by doing the jump in a normal ship that can be repaired with normal stuff.