I need to explain first that i have bipoler disorder. I have a predisposition to mania. The game triggered a manic episode in me and i ended up playing the game in a bit of an... unconventional way. I went on a bit of a rampage.
You see the problem is the notoriaty system. I'm sorry to complain about it. I get what its trying to do but it's far too savage. I spend hours trying to earn notoriety just to have it all upturned in the blink of an eye for silly reasons. I'm trying to play the game for the way it is but it's far too restrictive. I'm afraid to trade. I'm afraid to build. I afraid to take on missions. I can't even kill xenon or pirates either. Because every time i do any of that, i end up with severe penalties. I normally mainly play as a fighter pilot but it's really dificult to do in this game if you want to keep notoriety and availability of equipment and ships. I was finding it increasingly more frustraiting that i can't just play the game the way i normally would.
Then it happened. The straw that broke the camels back. I was in my nemisis, flying through space, mapping sectors. The sector i ended up in had a lot of xenon. I tried to head for the gate out the sector but some of the xenon came after me. I was in a ship that only travels at 133. I couldn't out run them. They eventually attacked and i had no choice but to stand and defend myself, which wasn't easy with a ship with wonky guns. But i managed to destroy them all and moved on to the next sectors and continued my mapping. Eventually i got a notification that one of my stations was under attack. I only had the 2 from the plot. So i checked and sure enough the supposedly peace loving boron where attacking my hq. So i checked my notoriety. I had lost all my notoriety with the boron. Why? Because i was attacked by xenon and had to defend myself? They turned against me for something like that? And boom, just like that, i shot up like a bottle rocket in response. Full blown mania. All of a sudden i felt amazing and had this wonderful idea. It hit me like a revelation. I was going to finally play the game the way i wanted to. I was going to have serious fun with this game.
I saved the game then quit it. I went on this form and downloaded the cheat package. I installed that then went back in game. I flew out to open space then starting spawning player owned ships around me. All sorts and types. I was fully equipping and upgrading each one and turning on god mode for them as i spawned them. One ship at a time. I spawned a huge big fleet of invincible ships around me then i headed for the void sectors. By the time i got down there my hq had took a battering. So i started killing boron. Sector by sector i traveled through the void and purged the boron with my fleet. I destroyed everything i could. But when it was done and i had nothing left to attack, i still didn't feel satisfied. I wanted more. So i spent the next 12 hours, traveling sector by sector through the map, destroying everything in my path that i could. Whole sectors, gone. Just about every faction in the universe was hostile towards me by this point but i didn't care. I was lost to the mania and obsessed with the battles. The battles were epic. The destruction was amazing. I was loving every minute of it! See, this game can be serious fun after all.
It all ended when i got to black hole sun. I intended to destroy that sector as well but i got distracted. There was a ton of xenon. Loads and loads of them. So i took on all the xenon. I was there for ages. The more i was killing, the more poured through the gate. It was frantic and fast and fun. But eventually i killed them all and by this point the mania had receded a good bit. I felt satisfied this time. So i traveled back down the void sectors and left my fleet there. I saved it as well.
And that gets me to where i am the now. I'm flying around, passing time, waiting to see if the universe respawns everything. I don't know if i've broke my save game by destroying so much of the map.
