After several hours of struggling through tutorials, I finally came to grips with the basic flight controls. Feeling confident in my abilities, I quickly started playing. I leave the station an eager and inexperienced pilot. After traveling around the solar system I was in for a few minutes, I was attacked by a criminal. After a 20 minute long battle invloving wits, tactics, and piloting talent, I finally managed to destroy the aggressor. I was rewarded with a redeemable voucher for just over 3000 credits. The feeling of achievement was indescribable. I was ready to take on the galaxy. No one could stand in my way. I promptly set a course to the nearest space station. After requesting permission to dock, I preceeded to enter the depths of the station. I then headed to the nearest landing pad. I was issued a warning not to loiter above landing pads. Confused, I tried another pad, then another, then another. Frustrated I finally decided to try one last time before givng up. Before I knew what was going on, I was taking damage. My ship exploded after a few of seconds. It turns out the penalty for landing pad loitering is death.

10/10 would space loiter again.

Edit: Almost a year later and after countless trial and error experiments, I finally discovered that you are assigned a landing pad and it is clearly marked both in plain sight and on the little compass on the bottom left. Better tutorials probably could have cleared this up.

After several hours of struggling through tutorials, I finally came to grips with the basic flight controls. Feeling confident in my abilities, I quickly started playing. I leave the station an eager and inexperienced pilot. After traveling around the solar system I was in for a few minutes, I was attacked by a criminal. After a 20 minute long battle invloving wits, tactics, and piloting talent, I finally managed to destroy the aggressor. I was rewarded with a redeemable voucher for just over 3000 credits. The feeling of achievement was indescribable. I was ready to take on the galaxy. No one could stand in my way. I promptly set a course to the nearest space station. After requesting permission to dock, I preceeded to enter the depths of the station. I then headed to the nearest landing pad. I was issued a warning not to loiter above landing pads. Confused, I tried another pad, then another, then another. Frustrated I finally decided to try one last time before givng up. Before I knew what was going on, I was taking damage. My ship exploded after a few of seconds. It turns out the penalty for landing pad loitering is death. 10/10 would space loiter again. Edit: Almost a year later and after countless trial and error experiments, I finally discovered that you are assigned a landing pad and it is clearly marked both in plain sight and on the little compass on the bottom left. Better tutorials probably could have cleared this up.