A couple of changes to encounters

[peterb]

1. A cap on encounters when trying to land. I just had 10 in a row resulting in mutinies after running out of fuel, getting my ship wrecked and plundered by multiple pirates and having not the money to recover.
2. encounters not taking a weeks time as that means the above example was over 2 months trying to land and you wind up burning way more fuel than is reasonable and raather unfairly failing contracts.

These 2 problems make it far too much a game of chance trying to get anywhere in the early game, especially given we cannot save

[Cory Trese]

Thanks for the post. You are playing on the iPhone?

[fallen]

peterb - welcome the forum! Thanks for hopping over from Facebook -- extended discussions are often just easier on the forum and the community here is more active in discussing game balance, issues, feature requests, etc.

[peterb]

Thanks fallen

I play on the android version. Its been noticably worse on the 4th difficulty level where im encountering 2-3 ships before I get to land reasonably frequently. This seems a bit overkill especially when its costing more and more fuel to keep trying and the ship is potentially a bit beaten up from fighting the more capable enemies so cant keep fighting so much (oh and the trade permit does nothing to protect me from pirates around the planet I bought it from like it seemed to say it does)

[ncaoa]

The trade permit only protects against pirates of the faction you bought it from. And also military and bountyhunters of that faction wont confiscate restricted items.

[Deleted]

I thought an encounter took less than a day.

[Cory Trese]

Encounter rates depend a great deal on skills. Which skills are you increasing. I was sure the original post was a gripe about issues with the iPhone! If you're on Android it is something you can probably address with some slight changes to strategy!