Alright, I've been biting my tongue because "It's Alpha". But I can't anymore. In the past few hours, I've lost around 750k in aUEC and who knows how much in the few days before. I've tried to "tough it out" and just "deal with it" without complaining on seemingly deaf ears, but no more. It took me a week to make my first million aUEC after finally having enough seed money to start trading. I should, realistically, be sitting at around 5 million aUEC total right now. But I'm not. Why? 30k's. Why THE HOLY HELL hasn't a quick patch been put in so that CARGO is left in the ship when the ship MUST be CLAIMED because of a bloody SERVER CRASH? Why? Why put us players who have been supporting this game up to this point through the exasperation, the frustration, the anger and the absolute disdain that we get put through every couple of hours (at best) instead of just letting the damn cargo come back with the ship when it's claimed? That little thing would mitigate this issue, even though it wouldn't solve the 30k issue... It WOULD at least make the experience more enjoyable by allowing us to at least (relatively) pick up where we left off before THE SERVER screwed us. Better yet, why the hell can't the game just pick up where it left off and put us back in the ship at this point as if it was simply a logout in bed, as has been suggested previously? At this point, I'm done making excuses for how this is being handled. I've been one who has been saying all along throughout all of these trials and tribulations "Welcome to Alpha" and making EXCUSES for the state this game is currently in. While my referral numbers don't show it, I HAVE brought a few of my friends into the game and they're tired of me making the same excuses for all the CRAP. I love the PROMISE and POTENTIAL of this game, but I'm done trying to do anything serious now. I think I'm going to just step away from the game entirely for a while now at this point, I've quite simply had enough and sadly... So have the friends that I have brought in. And before ANY of you try to tell me to "quit whining"... This is the first time I've bitched publicly about my frustration. There's no excuse anymore at this point for a 30k to completely kill having a good time with friends and causing me to lose DAYS of work in earning aUEC just to try to help my friends obtain a Prospector or any other ship in-game. The excuse of it being "Alpha" is tired, worn out and at this point it's beyond just being a dead horse, it's now a horse whose bones have been pulverized into dust. I will say this at this point: I can understand why people decide to just start ramming people on the pad. It's their way of saying "Don't bother, you're screwed no matter what. Go play something else." -Pissed Off Fox