Warranty expires too soon

[Russian Sly]

I just started getting familiar with alien control scheme, ramming almost every piece of debris I've found - pop, your warranty is over, get bent.
One death, another - you are 11k in debt.
Make a run, another - you are 7.8k in debt.

Refuel - you are back to 10k in debt.

[Russian Sly]

What would be nicer, in my opinion - is progress lock with warranty.
Still on warranty? Can't progress beyond the certain point - buy upgrades, accept certain missions, whatever.
Feel comfortable enough and accomplished enough? Rip off that "DO NOT REMOVE" sticker.

Which means that tutorial ends with player action, rather than player being forced out.

[Olrok]

Alternatively, if the warranty period was a bit longer (still could be 80,000, just start you a little further back from the 80,000 mark instead of almost right there) AND you could have the option to end it manually if you felt like you had the jist of the controls. I think maybe locking you into the first couple jump points while in warranty wouldn't hurt too much.

I only played on the default difficulty, so I'm not sure how custom settings impact the repair cost/length of warranty period.

I played the demo a little and am playing on the gamepass version now. I generally avoided collisions, but I was swiped by a NPC vehicle hoping it would yeild since I felt like I was already in line for a jump gate, and I managed to get to the repair station at 79,998 miles to have it covered free. A minute or two later and that would have been my problem.