So this past weekend I started a game (pretty standard start - along the lines of the wiki tutorial) where I didn't have a starting NPR. I think I've played for maybe 10 hours and sol is extremely developed, I have 4 colonies over 200 million people. The problem is that I put the number of jump points on random, and I only got 1. And that 1 leads to a class II black hole. My newest military vessels can navigate the system, but it seems almost impossible to establish trade between extra-solar colonies and the homeworld. Even with magnetic confinement engine tech, it is enormously expensive to build freighters capable of 2kK/s+.
So should I give up?