>>Granted, I haven't poked my head back in the game since... I guess
>>February, so some of that stuff may now be easier and/or actually
>>explained in game.
>
>Apart from some basic tutorial missions that don't really do a lot of
>tutoring (most of which have to do with the combat system in one way
>or another), not very much appears to be explained in-game,
>which is my biggest reservation about it so far. It's like the player
>character just arrived from a parallel universe, has no knowledge of
>the tech base, politics, personalities, or culture of the 31st
>century, and was lucky enough to acquire a Sidewinder and a thousand
>credits somehow or another, but is otherwise completely at a loss as
>to what anything is or does.
>
>Which is, admittedly, how it would go down in UF, but still. As a
>gameplay experience it's a bit bewildering. :)
>
>--G.

Ah - ok - so they haven't improved anything.

I never really thought too hard about how the PC go into the world, admittedly. Though now that you spell it out like that it sounds suspiciously like the beginning of Farscape :P