Tonight I ran across a few things that are of concern to me simply because they make the game way more difficult. By 'way' I mean unusualy and irratatingly diffacult. Ok to start with, why are there suddenly level 46,47 and 48 Red Dragons in Inverness at Hasters Point and Hasters End. I was on my JD overall level 35 and finaly able to do the level 50 jobs out of the Cygni Station that send you to the affore mentioned places. And to my surprise I warp in and get blasted to pieces. So not fair....
Still on my JD, I decide to work off the XP debt with combat and head for a spot with the level mobs I like to kill. These were aproxamatly 7 levels above my combat level and thought they would wipe out my debt in no time. The first mob went up in flames nicely and I thought to myself this is fun, the next one however ruined that. My energy leech quit working and I ran out of reactor energy before I could warp away or cloak or anything. Poof, more XP debt. It activated normally and the graphics were perfect but nothing happened as in no reactor energy for my ship. I tried it with psi shield on and off, tried it in the begineing of the attack and at the middle of the attack but nothing would get it to work again. I logged to desktop and logged back in to get the same results, it will work once then nothing.
Now I know this is a stress test and no where near Alpha or Beta phase of deveopment and do expect this sort of thing. This expierance though has made me put the JD aside for a spell and work on other characters for now.
Please don't be angered by my posting of this because I didn't intend to be objectional. Just wished to point out the diffaculties we (the players) face from time to time. I do my best to cope with the adversities of the growing game and at times do get depressed about my characters and the game play. Then I remind myself it is only a game (a very good one too) and keep telling myself it will be so great when it's all done and perfect. Till then thank you all for bringing the best game in the world back into my life. 10 ga.