>>2114024
see i KNEW there had to be a more elegant way, thank you anon i will keep all those mechanics in mind for the future
>>2114091
i've kinda gotten the hang of strafing, my problem now is mostly figuring out how to build ships that don't suck (but i'm still kinda bad at aiming, hence the mostly). i've just been using auto-fit, which i assume makes a bunch of retarded choices, but there's so much different shit going on that it's hard to tell which choices are good
having bad ships can be fun though, i took a mission to deliver something to the bottom of the map but i misjudged the distance and ended up getting marooned down there. the ancient robot fucks kept wiping the floor with my shit fleet so fast that i had to plan a daring heist just to get some fuel from a debris field, but that fuel was only enough to carry me to another system with more robots, and so on and so on until a friendly merc showed up. very memorable newfag experience