Great game once it gets going, but it's a long drag until you get the first system occupied and then things really take off.
2 ways of dealing with this, either make it much quicker to take over the first system, or have some sort of tutorial system with rewards & quests to get you to the first system in as short a time as possible.
I love the quests idea. **EDIT** I loved it so much that I built the feature but not all the content. If you want to sacrifice one of your three game slots to see if the early missions help, I would love that.
I've said before that this is an excellent game. I think it might be marginally more excellent as a single player turn based RPG/RTS hybrid, as it tails off a bit at high levels, especially after you get all 10 survivors. Still a very good MMORPG, better by far than many on kongregate.
You asked, I answered: Light The Way 2 has both more levels, and a level editor to make and share your own!