

Generally, almost anyone will leave you alone if you pay some small bribe to them, though, thankfully.

If you are underarmed, then pirates will harass you mercilessly, too. Until you upgrade your ship quite a bit, you have zero chance to take out enemy vessels.

Ok, that aside I will get to what you actually need to play the game successfully. Now, this sort of thing is not for everyone, but if one is too hard skipping it does not screw up your game much. Some of the text adventures are also extremely difficult and would be near impossible to complete through trial and error, as well. Sometimes it is difficult to figure out what you are trying to do and so you screw up the first time you play or even a couple of times, but generally speaking the path to victory is through logic. Actually it is true - again, if you are a Fucking Idiot. Now, some people have said the text adventures are just trial and error. It has something called challenge to it - it is not like freelancer with its broken, ludicrous economy where you have as much money as most planets after playing for 3 hours. You actually need a bit of a brain to play this game and enjoy it. First off, if you are really an idiot, such as kingcomrade (We have hundreds of his own posts to back this up) then just give up now because it's hopeless.
