Hi there,
Preordered the game yesterday since I'm a big softie about space pew-pews and good old Star Control 2 days. Reading the forum for the last couple of hours I can see a distinct difference between people who want more micromanagement and who want to keep things simple enough to go into space and blow stuff with minimum preparation.
I, myself, is a complete pack rat and really do love to tinker my fleet making it stronger and organized every way possible. And not afraid to spend half of the game time to do it (you should've seen me playing some large RPGs like Oblivion - maan, now thats a REAL mess for a good administrator! all those brooms to catalogue and store!)
I can fully understand that Alex & Co fight hard to keep the game as accessible and easy to handle as possible. But as a pack rat I simply cannot silently accept the fact my fleet personnel feed from supplies and at the same time use them to fix the breaches in the ships hulls. Either my crew are robots or my new hull armor is made of donutium steel. And my weapons shoot chikentastium ammo (angry birds in space reference intended).
So I'd like to ask the developers: could you please make a tiny box at the start of the campagin that I'd check and receive more gaming mechanics to make my life harder? Pretty please?
For example, not just brake supplies into food repair and ammo, but also add things like fresh rations that I can buy from planets to boost my crews morale? Or add weight to ship refitting screen so that ships with fewer weapons installed would fly faster than fully loaded ones? Please, if you decide that some feature is making the game cumbersome - don't just throw it away, place it in the game and let us, players use it, if we are willing to. Probably add a difficulty menu where we could check/uncheck boxes with said "extensions". Or, at the very least, please leave that part of the game code accessible enough so that some modder could add such variables later.
Oh, and I really would be glad to see an accident "While trying to organize the overburdened cargo bay your crew found a stash with _insert_number_ zettabytes of porn data. _Insert_number_ of your green crew became veterans".
