Game issues

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1, The current setup of the game may discourage new players.
You start in a relatively crap ship, with little money, and no real legit way of making any.
Now this is just plain wrong. You start with fully loaded freighter with a mining array. You can rack up money very quickly with mining, which costs nothing.

2, There seem to be no low-level missions anymore.
I found the lowest to be "level 3", available on Planet Manhattan.
Missions are tough but pay well. Valley Forge in Pennsylvania gives you the lowest rank missions. I don't play snubs, so I can't comment on that experience. Try Encounters or Battlezones maybe, or save youself some money to buy a gunboat to grind these low rank missions.

3, Wrecks/Loot hunting is now pointless
There are definitely some wrecks that are worth your time and effort. The one you picked isn't.

4, Player interactions have gone a tad downhill.
Its very hard to Role-Play on a Role-Play server when others aren't really doing the same.
Report them.
I have had several "interactions" with people playing as criminal factions who just shoot randomly at you for no reason.
Report them.
These people also have much better ships/weapons/shields so you are no match for them.
That is relative. Guns and ships have both qualities and defects. I don't know what do you mean by this.
What happened to the InRP rules for PvP combat? Am I really allowed to just randomly blast whoever I want, whenever I want?
No. Report them.

5, Rule-breaking is confusing.
I have been told once or twice by other players that "X is against the rules for my character", despite the fact that they also break rules themselves.
Report them.
Not only this, but the GAME rules also seem to have changed.
Yeah, for the better.
Why can't a Freelancer (clue in the name) basically fly ANY ship they want?
Freelancers can fly most ships in the game but can't fly faction ships, they also can't fly heavier capitals for an obvious reasons.
My Freelancer character got a lovely Corsair ship, with Corsair weapons, only to have his ship power nerfed due to "incompatibility" or something...? A Freelancer is a Freelancer, he should be able to fly ANYTHING.
This happens for a good reason. If Freelancers could fly any ship they want, no one would ever fly the actual factions. You like a certain ship, fly that faction.

6, Faction standing issues
I understand that when you kill one factions members, it angers them and pleases others.
Example: Killing Hessians or Molly's will anger them but impress the Corsairs.
However, this doesn't always seem to work correctly.
After blasting Molly's for over an hour, the Corsairs still didn't have any improvement in standing.
I believe it is a feature to avoid you easily gaining too much faction reputation.
Also, killing Nomads (which is now super easy) is meant to impress EVERYONE except them, but it doesn't seem to.
This feature ("Empathy") has been nerfed in Discovery for being particularly overpowered.

7, NPC's are suddenly dumb...?
Apart from the fact that they completely ignore you, NPC's suddenly seem dumber.
On several occasions, I have seen Rogues and Outcasts "attacking" Trade Lanes.
Attacking is an overstatement, they shoot directly between the two lane circles until one has the bright idea to drop a Mine in the middle. Then they just fly around in little circles until it comes online again before doing exactly the same thing.
While fun to watch, it kinda takes you out of the game world.
On the odd occasion that one of these "attacks" causes other ships to enter the area, a small but very fast fight ensues.
Usually resulting in a landslide victory for one side or the other.
If the bad guys win, they go back to "attacking" the Trade Lane or fly off in a random direction until they die somehow.
Dumb "Ambient" NPCs are a feature and are working correctly. They're supposed to just exist and shoot other NPCs/Stations. They're not meant to attack the player or be deadly in combat.

8, Particularly large ships are somewhat annoying.
I often see the larger ships FAIL to enter Trade Lanes. Sometimes resulting in them BLOCKING said Trade Lane.
I have therefore had to bypass that initial Trade Lane for its next section due to the fact that I cannot actually Dock with the first part of the Lane. I once found myself "stuck" against one of these large ships for 5 minutes while attempting to Dock with the Lane, until somehow it managed to dislodge itself.
Yes, that can happen. Just go to the next lane or ram your way into the lane. If you're hostile to the NPC, just shoot them.

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