There is no reason to scan data leaks anyway. At least in the early game. There is one story mission where you have to scan a leak, but they tell you that you may have to use an EMP bomb to create leaks.

Also, you can always just ignore missions and do something else. So if you have troubles with your current ship, you can do other missions first, buy some miner ships to work for you to earn some money, so that you are able to upgrade your ship or even buy a new ship for yourself.

And no, dropping EMP bombs doesn't anger the station. But if the little police ships watch you doing that, they may get angry and attack you. But it's not like the whole station attacks you.

If you have some problems with the game and can't find it out, make sure to check the guide section, the game forum on Steam and Reddit. Other people probably had the same question, too, which was answered.

We know that X4 is a bit hard to get into it, but it's worth it. Don't hesitate to ask for help. :-)

Hey, thanks for reaching out. Sadly, I did not troll or even made an overstatement. I really did spend 10 hours with that, seeing how I have 10 hours more in the game than I had before my attempted big restart, and how I played it in 1 hour pieces after work over the course of a month.

I did finish the tutorials so I know how it should look like, but unfortuntely the story mode character does not start with an EMP bomb (that I know of), nor does the game communite that data leaks are not guaranteed. I was going mad over this because I found it once before on the very same station. I'd like to stick to the story mode but with the beginner ship I feel gravely underequipped to even attempt anything that might anger a station and shoot me to pieces, and an EMP bomb doesn't sound like a friendly tolerated activity.

In an X4 news you wrote as comment: "I spent 10 hours looking for a data leak around a station and quit."

Not sure if you are trolling. But in case you are serious and exaggerated a bit: Data leaks are not guaranteed. If you really, really want to scan a data leak (to get the blueprint of a module) you can craft (or buy) an EMP bomb which you can drop on a station module and detonate to create several data leaks.

Returning your message: I would like to open a line of contact to ask for more information on the issues you encountered while playing Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition. Send me a message if you would like to talk.

thank you
I loved original Test Drive game, open world driving with decent physics
The Crew scratched that itch a little
but The Crew 2 doesn't seem like a game I would enjoy

@Dixu
Of course. I always open it up for comments, seems I forgot it this time. Though the review itself has so many awards at this point I lost counting, if that's an indicator about it's reliability. Regarding other players, they can write their own reviews, but I opened it up regardless.