Reporting on my first playthrough

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I was planning to post this under Campaign Reports, but then I noticed that those are short novels, so I’d rather write here.

I picked up version 2.7.1 a few weeks ago, after lurking on the subreddit for a bit. Completely overwhelmed at first, I turned to MOChad’s video series. I followed his guidance, but also explored the UI by myself. Trial and error was also a good teacher.

After getting my first jump ships, I went to explore the galaxy! We encountered hostiles who blew up our scouts, so I began to prepare for war. As my first FACs were coming out of the factories, a single enemy ship appeared in Sol and started to blow up all my painfully assembled mining stations. My mighty fleet of 5 FAC reacted quickly; too bad that I did not know how to tell them to shoot! We lost 3 crafts on our first engagement, before I could look up how combat works. In the end, we managed to score one internal shot before succumbing to our doom.

I had a blast, and I immediately started a second campaign, making STO weapons a priority.

Any suggestions for a noob? Currently, I am looking up video tutorials on specific topics. Series are very long, and they repeat a lot of what I learned from MOChad.

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From every run, learn a lesson.
This is often the lesson from the first run.

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Keep playing, like skoormit said you always learn something new.

Tutorials are good, only issue is they all discuss basic topics, not many advanced ones. Spacemarine did a few more advanced once, his chanel is defran strategy or something.

But in reality, you learn more by playing. Beware, while some problem are the same campaign after campaign, Surprises are generated more often than u think. The challenge in every game is to pass to the standard starting point and get to the meaty juicy core of your campaign.

All mighty would say: “There is hope citizen, because we are here”. Just shoot a message to the chat or forum if you need some quick advice.