Hey everyone,
I just found out 0.65a came out and spent my entire day playing it. And I really love the direction it's going in.
There are however a few things that really keep this game from being fun for a long time. The early game seems way too easy for me, it took me about an hour to get my first million through selling food to starving planets. And after that money becomes irrelivant. I just keep a stock of food in every sector and make a few more millions as soon as someone has a need for my food. This also means I'm about lvl 40 in the space of two hours. The exp gain from trading should probably get some sort of deminishing return.
But there are already a few topics about this so I won't bother going in to it much further. I don't actually have a problem with being rich and high level fast, that just means I can get to the endgame faster!
Unfortunaly there is really no such thing as endgame. As the economy is right now, in all my playthroughs it seems to reach an equilibrium after a few months, meaning there is almost no more trading to be done unless you actively disrupt the market by buying all the food everywhere. There are almost no pirates, so they don't do enough damage to disrupt the market and offer no challange to the player. All pirate fleets can be beaten with just one or two ships, and even the biggest faction fleets are no match for my 2 falcons and a few fighter wings.
Ofcourse there will be many mods coming to 0.65a soon to remedy these, and many other, problems. However I feel like it's a pitty I have to rely on mods to actually make this game enjoyable for more then a few hours. And just spawning some more and stronger pirate and faction fleets would already go a vary long way to doing that.
I ofcourse realize that this is simply an alpha build and the developer is focussing all his time on creating actual gameplay mechanics rather then content. But I just wanted to have said it, since I couldn't find any posts about the (lack of) endgame. So am I the only one who feels this way? Am I just unlucky with my playthroughs? Or do people just not bother mentioning it?
Let me know what you think.