When new, traveling is very boring and tedious with the slower ships. I have noticed a lot of newbies complain, to which the response is "Wait till you get a faster ship." Like, that helps. And there are a lot of requests for auto-pilot. Why not shorten the distance between jumps in nations, and leave them longer in gray and ion storms? How much space do we need, anyway? It would solve a lot of problems..... and keep some customers. It would speed up a very slow game. Hopefully, it would be an easier way to fix the boring space flight problems, development wise.

It isn't that bad, and: it gets easier when you get better powercells and faster ships. :P

No, saying that doesn't help. You know what does help? Not whining and instead getting access to better powercells and faster ships.

Seriously, what's the point of having them if you don't have incentive to get them?

Also, note that some players sell Ultra Charge Powercells. They can be equipped even by newbies, and perform much better than the newbie powercells.

VERY early on in the game you get access to the Centurion which is quite a fast little ship. Yes it takes forever in an EC-89 or a Mk1 Revenant. They're slow. It's not supposed to be fast and easy in slow ships.

Now, not having a way to keep your turbo on constantly out of the box is a big deal in this regard. So many experienced players have binds or plugins to deal with this problem that they often forget how much it sucks to hold down Tab.

I used to jam a nickel beside the Tab key on my old keyboard to keep it turboing so i could go grab a snack or something. :)

You could try what Pizzasgood said and ask for some UC powercells, or hunt certain hive robots to get Hive Fast Charge Power Cells. Try looking for Siepos T38 Transports.

you do know, they ADVERTISE for suggestions? did you read that? and, this is not a whine. this is a big deal with new people. do you also realize, that they need to make money on this game? and new people leaving, is not a good thing. new people do not realize about power cells and all the stuff you currently know. that is a lot to know. and a lot of boredom.

as i fly around, i do not see a lot of other ships. this can't be a good thing.

while all the people that have fast ships, say transporting is fine. i challenge you to DELETE all your characters, and make a new one and see how much a pain in the rear it is. i have done it 3 times, and let me tell you, you FORGOT what a pain it is to have a slow ship, no money, and have to mine with one extractor and a small cargo bay, for money.

and, yep, they have a cent, but they need to transport. so they mine, slowely, and travel, slowely, and are bored out of their minds. and there is no cargo room in the cent. oh, and while the advanced players will say it is good fighter, let me help this along too. the advanced people .... rarely use this ship. i wonder why? and we have not even gotten into how much damage can be done. there is a lot of difference between doing 1450 damage a hit and 370 damage a hit.

now, lets talk about the 8 hour trial. in 8 hours, you get, here we go again, some boring travel, some boring travel, and guns that can't kill anything. i am surprised anybody re-ups.

and get Siepos Transports? that is a tough ship to bring down for a newbie.

get outside your experience, delete your character, and then tell me how this game is NOT BORING...... the ideas were to speed it up.

Defensive little runt, aren't ya.

i challenge you to DELETE all your characters, and make a new one and see how much a pain in the rear it is. i have done it 3 times, and let me tell you, you FORGOT what a pain it is to have a slow ship, no money, and have to mine with one extractor and a small cargo bay, for money.

No, I didn't forget. Every few months I create a new character for some reason or another. Flying around in the lowest classes of ships sucks. I know this. But it's supposed to suck. They're the lowest class of ships. Duh. That is why you get faster ships and better powercells.

Damn... 2 times now i am agreeing with Rin..:>) I also do the same as Rin, starts over as a newb, to see if certain things are bad or not, yea it sucks to have a small slow ship, but guess what , take the 1st courier mission after that u can get a rev, at miner level 2 u can get a mineral hog that has 24cu hold and is fast so buck up and do the damn missions, they are there for a reason to HELP you get a better ship and stuff. Did you know at trade level 1 Covus will sell you a atlas with 32 cu and better power cells to use, so yea u can do a lot of stuff IF you do missions

First we had Alloh... but he got better (kind of).
Then we had PallidinOfLancelot... he changed his name a few times and then disappeared.
Now we have blackl5405... and the tradition continues.

-1 to OP. I think nation wormholes should've even more distance, roids and even fog or instant ion storm!

-1 to OP. This is space, things sre supposed to be far far far away...
+1 to Pirren's increase distances

@RR: No, I was not the first, there were many before me, as yourself. Everybody was a clueless newbie once... some remain noobs...

And GS really asks for suggestions in-game. Maybe we should remove that request, or change it to ask new, fresh ideas?

It's fine how it is. If people are too stupid to understand that just because they made a suggestion doesn't mean it's a good suggestion, and even if it is a good one the devs might not implement it anyway, then that's their problem. They can go home and cry to mommy for all I care.

Actually, what I think they don't understand is that this is a suggestion forum. My dictionary defines "forum" thusly: a public meeting or assembly for open discussion. I think the newbies don't realize that their suggestion will be discussed, and possibly deemed a bad suggestion, and that they will be told this to their face.

Newbies: Just because we tell you a particular suggestion is bad does not mean we are telling you we don't want suggestions. Also, few if any suggestions get universal approval. Some people won't like your suggestion. Deal with it.

Even if the devs do shorten the distance, there's always someone more impatient who will hate it and say it takes too long.