Try to find some friends or a faction, playing this alone its just hard as hell.
Not really, this only bad thing for loners is 3 levels of profession max, so you can't craft weapon+armor yourself. And, of couse, your character have to be a crafter/fighter. But, if you play this game not first time, you can be fighter easily alone, but i can't play pure "shooter" character, this is out of my principes. Playing alone is hard at 1st, may be 2nd playing day, after it's easy for all. But don't play alone everytime, 'cause you'll find this game have no point. And... shovel shit... i never did that, time wasting. I was like 6th level, when noticed about this thing first time... You'll faster make some quests, and then earn XP for crafting, then you'll be able to kill marauders/raiders/robbers to get thier loot and sell it to NPC shop, or you can sell crafted items. And for alone player you should tag repair, i see it's 21% at your screen... you need as much as you can (but not more, than weapon skill). Btw, if you have AGI 6 and tagged Small Guns - you have 49%, then go to Boneyard and speak to guard at "Fortress" location, if your Small Guns <50% he will give to you loaded (12) 10mm Pistol + 35 10mm JHP and +15% to skill, so you'll have 64% (with AGI 10 - you have 65%). You can take this quest only if your small guns <50%, and, i think you don't need to be high level, 'cause i did it on 3rd level and is ok, but my 15th level char with tagged energy weapon and 45% small guns can't take this quest... ;p So, you'll have a gun, but with only 64% don't shoot at anyone, or you'll waste bullets and brake your pistol for nothing. Press "F" button, look what you need to craft 10mm pistols and 10mm ammo, also, don't forget about science skill, you need 60% science to craft gunpowder. And with a time, you'll see that playing alone is only boring, but possible, but if you're a maniac, like most people here, you'll start to kill others, may be it'll keep you playing. Really i want to find ANY faction/gang/party of idiots/something else who is hunting on PKs and other scum, because it's really boring to not kill people, when you're able to, but i can't kill with no reason.