Captain's Log. Today I teamed up with the usual crew, SQ, Limpbisket, Pyro, Selwyn, and Rich Banks. We've had a second wind for cargo hauling. With the recent launch of the PTU to all backers there seems to be less cargo haulers as competition in the verse. Naturally the supply of Laranite as been a little better. Just the other day we tracked down over 300 SCU in one location, a breakthrough compared to the meager 50 or less SCU we've been able to find at other locations. 

Today I teamed up with a new player, Liandrix, who was interested in any credits in game. We ran a few cargo haul runs from Wala and then did some in game combat missions as a group.  

Welcome to the group Liandrix! I hope to see you in the verse.

I'd thought I'd share Liandrix's first experience here:

I made this in hope people would share their failures and success from when they first started Star Citizen, mine is the former

but it would be great to know how others got on in the replies down below.

I started on Lorville, and after some navigational blunders finally got to my Freelancer.

I was amazed by the detail and all the cool little features around the ship, perhaps so much so I didn't realise that I had to request to leave

and had a bit of a rattle and spin inside the docking area, luckily without blowing up.

One Youtube video later I am in space flying around and picking up my first delivery mission, something simple to get me started.

I got my first 3 packages and headed off, the first delivery went off almost without a hitch although it did take me a hot minute to

realise the package had to go in the box and not on the counter due the delivery marker moving around xD. My second delivery was a bit

stranger as I found the base hadn't rendered properly and I fell through the floor but it wasn't enough to deter me and I got it done!

From here this is where it went downhill, first I had a pirate npc stop me and take out one of my engines causing me to spin almost

uncontrollably so. I finally managed to stop myself and popped the pirate but I was left unable to do anything but spin in place, so I

decided to re-log and recall the ship. Skipping time, some needed frontal spotlights on the Freelancer, 2 terrible cave dives and 3

servers where no one wanted to multicrew a noob, I now have 4 duplicate Freelancers in my inventory with 3 being "Unknown" and

I am kind of done with the delivery life so I start pirate hunting in my Aurora.

I get my first two mercenary contracts done so onto my third, this is where things left me in quite a precarious place. I noticed

the pirate was marked with a white outline and not a red one which I thought was strange but carried on anyway, it was at this moment I

was alerted to the fact I had committed a crime. I thought oh maybe it's a bug and nothing will happen, the pirate had finally landed a hit and the outline turned red. Once they died I then realised time was not on my side as the police were now onto me.

I checked my journal and proceeded to Grim Hex where I grabbed my cryptokey to go wipe myself off the police database. I had a little

quantum jump away from the station too afraid I would be hunted by a player, as I was setting my destination in a random pocket of

space I hear a target lock but I see nothing on radar so I am confused and carry on. Just as a I lock in my destination I notice a

red missile icon glowing and decide I need to run from my invisible foe, I think I got to about 20% calibration before I got insta

killed by system police.

Finally with my black screen I log out and back in, I wonder why my suit is now all bright yellow and why I have a mining tool.

Yes my friends, it was time to visit the gulag. I had been a plucky young delivery man turned mercenary just trying to make my

fortune in the world when the rigged police regime tricked me into a 2 hour shift in the gulag mining scheme and this is where

finally I was disenchanted and logged off for the night.

To sum it up, my first 24 Hours were filled with wonder, amazement at all the detail of the ships and stations, more duplicates than

a cloning facility and becoming a victim to a corrupt police regime. I think I will still keep going but, man, it has been a painful ride so far xD. 

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