The proposed mission are a bit boring when you are a new pilot. Killing bots is funny at the beginning but rapidely becomes an xp-hunting, which I found really annoying.

With few licenses, there is some escort mission that seems promising, but they are quite hard. I found frustrating to be killed by a hive bot after two or three shots, even when I send some missiles on it. Ok, one could take 10 hours to kill a bunch of bots, but this is not my definition of "having fun".

A thing that can make the game interesting is to propose missions where you can pilot a ship that you do not purchase, just during the mission time. The ship should be adapted to the mission, of course, and the mission should permit to gather some XP, perhaps less than doing it whit its own ship... Or simply one can lease a ship for a given time, for any purpose.

I think that's where the devs intend to take this game. I'm certain that they don't want to let VO become a leveling treadmill, although right now it's a bit of that.

Just wait for the good stuff to arrive, it will definitely come.

They are doing away entirely with XP and all Licenses and items will become available through mission trees. It is coming Soon(TM).

!? Where did that come from, jexkerome?

He's just echoing what the devs have talked about.

I didn't know that was definite.

And I thought it was supplementary (for high-level ships like Valks, Proms, etc) instead of all-around replacement...