I'm with Haily here.  CR is the kind of thing I just never have been able to get into, and that's after years of it being around.  I've already tried it twice in just the past three and come up with the same results; far too much grind in the beginning to be enjoyable.
Miri, while not exactly the greatest environment, particularly if you pay far too much attention to the chatter channel, is not the most horrible, either.  In fact, off chatter, most everyone will be nice to you unless you start messing with people.  Mission where needed, salvage to get credits and get your foot in the door, courier as much as you can early on in the beginning so you can get ahead if you're into that sort of thing and because it provides better benefits later on, and remember that every action, whether it be a word or staring during a mission, will have a reaction, such as people hating on you and worse.
either way, we'd better return you to the topic at hand here, which is CR.  doing any less than that would be super messed up given that would be like going on the CR platform and trying to advertise Miriani, and I don't like that sort of thing myself.

Moderation:
Haily, I'm issuing a caution here and I'm going to tweak your post to remove the link.
I've investigated this site, it hosts copyrighted material, so slightly obscured or not, it's probably not a good idea to post it publicly. It appears to be one of the less egregiously offensive sites, however, which is why this is just a caution.

Yes, that one.

I'll admit the grind varies between activities. Asteroid harvesting for example is still really not good on points or cash even at my rank of 175, however higher rank activities or those with high rank caps give higher payouts.
For example, one Asteroid processing run can usually get me three or four ranks in one go, whilst going and pollution collecting, particularly with all the upgrades and the hold size of 5000 is pretty good.

The problem tends to come with some of the activities that haven't been updated for a while, such as boat rescuing, even though they don't have rank caps.
Actually, one thing I do think is a bit sad, is that activities that have had changes to make them a bit more fun, such as hunting, trash collecting and mechanical mining are still only worth doing at a very limited rank range, whilst some later activities which haven't had the fixes take up much more relative space on the ranks list, which is one reason I so much liked the changes to asteroid processing and pollution reparation.

Obviously, as the mods focus on activities, some will get fixes and upgrades (meteor chasing is entirely pointless), but stil it's always a shame to have to switch from a more complex activity to a less complex one, one reason I was glad the rank on asteroid processing was extendedd.

@Mirage, build skill is actually used to build huts and such, you need to start off hunting and hand mining, though you should enjoy hunting since it comes with a lot of skinning and crafting and what not. Oh and don't worry about a million credits, you'll soon have enough.

See chelp lower level crafts, and see My topic on Cosmic rage activities, for some of my thoughts, though I haven't updated with farming yet as I'm still getting the hang of that and farming is quite a lengthy process.

Btw, if your starting as a dragon fair enough, but you personally might enjoy Mutariansi as a race, particularly all of the animal forms you get to play with.
I can't think of another game when I spend most of my time as an Owl, and then get to turn into a German shepherd when I need to bite someone .

My char is Wanderer in the game if you want to give me a yell, oh and yes, I am playing a female character.

I would just strait up say how you feel after you play the game again. also I tried space combat and I only hit maybe 9or 14 ships.

Dark,
I almost played a mutariansi just for that reason, and I may create another character for it, because it did sound like an awesome race.
I'll look for you in game.

so, don't mean to complain or what, but is it me or the host are actualy doing their work kind of slowly now? saw they keep playing around with that random host giveaway thing, but left assist request neglected for a few hours, support request, report and suggestion with no comment. I know they got life and such, but arnt' there like what?6, 7? or more of them working in diffrent time zone shifts. and yes I am aware that diffrent host handles diffrent thing, but still.
Let me ask, is it annoying to you to suggest something that might construct the game to a better way and end up with no reply, no comment, at least why your suggestion cannot be included?
Is it annoying to have a problem in the middle of your activity and have it fix a few hours later?
Then again, I know the game got a big player base, and probably have a pile of reports, suggestions, supports.
with great power comes great responsibility, though, right? so there should be a way to handle these. a day of reports/suggestions checking maybe?
honestly I don't mind waiting if I know what are the hosts up to. playing with that random gift is fine and all, but if there is a report/request/assist, it's better to solve them first beforethings got piled up, right?

IDK man, I feel kind of sad to see this honestly.
to add more onto my post before, I have also realize, it looks like the communication between hosts is lacking somehow?
long story short, I was requesting for a donation pet through the support ticket via the pet wizard, which is support, select number 4, and another number 4. I fill up all of the prompts there and submit it. after a few minutes I got a notice that saying there is a problem with my ticket, and a host will comment on it soon. after a while without any update for my ticket, (yes, I already make sure to checked for a comment, and there was nothing), and so I went to sleep. when I woke up, I got another notice, saying my ticket has been resolve with the comment:
"Hello, would you mind using the pet wizard for this?"
I was like, lol what? what the hek did I used then? also in the ticket, you can clearly see it is in a pet wizard result format.
Then again no one had actually confirm about my post above, it might be just me alone who having that issue with the game.
I saw thumbs up though, if someone feeling the same, please do confirm my points, or if I said something wrong, please correct me. I have this, um, unknown feeling within me.
I love cr, I really do, it's been my home since like, the first launch of the moo back on 2016 I think. I hate to say bad things about it, but I have this principle to not turn a blind eye for something bad happening within whatever I love.
But it just might be me, suggesting something while the host are busy, reporting something while the host are inactive, request for an assist not in the right time...
help, anyone?

@828 I don't think so, mainly because there's not really a point. There's so many ways for players to bring stuff up in game that no one has to post here anymore.

@omer: ok, I'll try again soon

Good morning everyone, or evening or... Um. well. This being a forum and all I guess it could be the end of the world by now so... Good end of the world everyone?

Anyway! I hope everyone is doing well!

I felt it due time for me to address a couple of concerns, questions ETC that have been raised in this topic, some of which I am more informed about than others!

I'll cover them in the order I see them, but if I do miss you it's not deliberate!

Newbie answers v.s. Megasuits. I'm sorry you had such a bad experience. I admit to not personally being around at the time (after all, one does have to sleep and eat occasionally). I will say megasuits are not a very widely known system, more out of the fact you need two people of the same race to work with them and most folk seem to hang out with other races! this is completely fine and on the staff to see what we can do to make them more attractive, but on the grand scheme of current projects, Megasuits slowly got pushed back and back to the point where only a select few have ever taken the time to use them. Now, obviously, this is not the most positive angle for megasuits and I will say that when they are used, they're great fun! It may merely explain why you did not get as many answers as you usually would.
In regards to newbie questions it is also important to consider what is asked, for instance, I often see people say:
"I built a module, installed it, but it's not working, why?"
Why what? What module? What output are you getting when you try to use it v.s what you expect? What command or action are you performing in which, in your opinion, it should work and what is this producing?
All relevant information that, to credit our newbie helpers and htpl's they do their best to telepathically read from people's minds but sometimes there just isn't enough!
Now, I am in no way saying this is what happened, (once again I was not there to judge such an action), but there are three sides to every story so this may be another. Not to mention like anyone else, the newbie helpers themselves do have to take toilet breaks at some point, so may have simply missed out when you asked.

Pet wizard v.s support ticket. I admit even I read your post and went, lol what? The only explanation I can even think of that may have happened was someone hit the wrong button and started to make the pet by hand and then got pulled away for what ever reason? I'm not even sure and would have to follow this up to be clear but that would seem to be logical to me.

Does the big guy check the forum? I do my best! I admit I've become more and more reliant on the HTPC's and in game means but I do poke my head around the door occasionally just to read things through and keep my ear to the ground (even if I'm not sure what you'd like me to say in return.)

Finally, I wanted to come around to this line of post 832.

"friend who has a ticket for a few weeks now, and it's not been resolve, just said that the item... "

I m, quite literally, baffled and would love to know where you get your information. I logged in this morning and took a peak at donator requests. Sure enough there are a few open (very nice!) In fact there are, as of the writing of this post, 4 tickets in the category donator items. of those, 3 are from the same person. The first is awaiting some code completion and the user has green lighted that process. The other two (by the same user) are being worked by a builder and finally the fourth ticket is awaiting a player response.
Are you sure you're not confusing cosmic Rage with a less efficient mud?
Now, fair enough I will admit I only looked at the donator category. If there is an open ticket and it is not in the right category, I didn't see it but by that same argument, we have a priority list to conform to:
You donate real money, you put your donator item request in the donator item category (all clearly labeled)
We get it done as soon as we can.

If you put it under the wrong heading then... Sure! We'll do it, no problem about that, but you can not expect the same sort of priority as those who did put their tickets in the right place to begin with. Like many things in life, the support ticket system is a queue. thankfully we're not limited in the fact if we're waiting on an answer from question 1, we can't view question 2, so we can answer several requests at once. What this does mean though that is if Bob, Jimmy, David and Johann have their tickets in before you. It would be inconsiderate of us to say sorry Bob, Jimmy, David and Johann, we know you filed your tickets correctly and are first but... Get stuffed, we're doing this one first.

I hope some of these answer your questions and concerns and remember, for the fastest response times, hit us up in the game itself, or drop us an email!

take care, and wash your hands (with soap!)