Someone please ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ explain how the damage works in this game because no matter what the ♥♥♥♥ i do i cant seem to be able to win a single damn fight and its making it seem like theres no point if everything is going to be so impossibly tanky....

So I recently got back into the game. I was never any good. but I bought the Mamba CZ Jumpstart jsut to practice fighting pirates since I was never able to get a ship that I could actualy turn fast enought to fight back. and MAN I love this thing! so Ive been fighting for a few days and now Have 163 million bankled and want to get a REAL ship that I can start engineering. what do you guys think I should buy if i want to just have fun killing pirates in high risk zones?...

So Far the Mandalay has me reaching 4000LS ish. But somewhere it said that it can go up to 6X normal speed. What ship does that? I want to see the fastest I can get to Hutton Orbital. Just for fun.

Is there a way to tell what type and size of passenger cabin is needed for a mission? If i look at a mission it either tells me my cabin's not big enough (but not by how much) or it tells me how many people need seats, but not what type of seats.

I spent good time this weekend completing quite a few Influence missions to affect the BGS in the system I'm constructing. I'm attempting to raise the Influence of my chosen faction. Not only did I not raise the Influence levels, it dropped by a huge 6% and a faction I'm trying to force out and was almost low enough to leave the system, now has their Influence levels taken into the safe zone. How can this be when most if not all of the missions had nothing to do with any other faction other than my chosen...