I
had the same problem myself. It is really annoying, at least at the beginning, when you are
still flying a Starflyer and have no-good guns. I survived without much problems, but it
took me about 10 to 15 minutes to take down those damn ships in the missions. Since then I
only take missions where you only have to kill one guy 
(assassinations and the
like...)
I scanned the enemy ships in combat. They all have 100 Shield Batteries and
100 Nanobots. Personally, I think this is a little unfair, considering that I can't
take that much. To make it fairer, the enemy ships should only be allowed as much SBs and
NBs as their ship can acctually take, then we would be on an even level.
And, as I
said, it really gets annoying to play it in a Starflyer. In MP you have at least more money
and can buy a better ship and better weapons right at the beginning, but in SP, you have
this damn Starflyer, shitty guns and not much money.
As for my experience: I play
Freelancer since two or three years, so I would consider myself a fairly good pilot. Altough
personally I have a grudge against missiles, I don't no why. Somehow I just don't trust
them and rather like to use my guns. Perhaps it is because I like to have my enemies always
in front of me, I don't know. But that is just me...
P.S.: In the description at
the Lancer Reactors it was said that CF has Open SP. Didn't see much of that. What happened
to it?
P.P.S.: Oh yes, and there was a mentioning of two new stories. Are those only
available in SP? And how does one star them?
