Not enough experience points

It's been a while, but aren't we technically still in a mission while free roaming? Remember those "You're about to travel long distance, skip directly to destination (Y/N)?" questions? Picking "no" is when you fly around manually and most players use this time to grind - technically isn't it still during a quest?

There are a few instances where you receive a "free time" mission, but the moment you fly to another system you usually get the next mission notice (except that you can delay getting there as long as you like, similar to above), so I wonder whether this also counts as not being in a mission, or not.

The game gives you unlimited save slots, I don't like "auto" saves. I'd rather have the option to save before you make a decision - like eroge have been doing for years.

[RoboPatton]

I'd like to know this for certain too Trucidation. I will mess around with it later and see if I notice any difference.

Do we know if the game flags certain ships/enemies as being "mission" units? That would be the most likely way for it to be done.

Also, I read another post some time back that showed another value you can edit to increase pilot exp gains. I can't remember what it was.

The threat value of ships (defined in the carcass.xml file iirc) is also used in exp calculations, you could adjust those as well but you'll have to edit each ship type. It's faster to just change the multiplier in the script as Goblin Wizard pointed out.

[Szpaku]

is it possible to make perks cost less Exp points? like changeing FTU werhouse perk from 75 to 20 or somethin smaller?

[Goblin Wizard]

..\Data\Scripts\include\PilotProperties.script. Perk is called Black_Market e.g.

Black_Market =	{75,{"lucky_1"},{}},

75 is your number I don't know if it works with started game.