Tactics and Downloading my purchase

[Maulkye]

I played the demo Last night. I loved it. It reminded me just a little of one of my favorite games: Hardwar. I have a question or two though.

1) This guys says, go sell some stuff and then come back for a mission. So I do. Then he sends me in to defend a freighter from FOUR PIRATE CRUISERS for a *long* time! I replayed this mission every which way but Sunday. I can take out two cruisers if I' execute my moves well, but never win. Is this supposed to happen, or should I just ignore the old fart and get back to him after I have a Mark III Cruiser myself? Am I missing some tactical information here? I usually load up two of the best anti-proton cannons I can get, 40kT shields front and back, and 20k shields aft and port, with one cargo bay, and offenseive and defensive sensors. Is this a poor strategy? I hate to just have missles and PD cannons. They can be so easily countered.


2) I just order my copy of the full game. Of course, I won't have it for the 3day weekend, because there doesn't appear to be anywhere to download it?!?!?!? Am I right about this, or can I go get it somewhere? What a waste of three days off if I can't download it! How unexpected of an indie shop.