@juzy You just need really really high damage weapons with high life steal while having enough health that you can survive long enough for your lifesteal to work. The dragon drops a shield that's easier to get simply from the magic lamps anyway. It's the shield that makes one characted take 70% of the damage targeted at other characters while granting a boat load of health.
There's a point where if you invest in crew luck eventually all missions only require 3 crew. If you're just shy of it they all go to 75 as the flat requirement. Also once you buy the 12 engine you no longer have any use for doing any missions which means only the first 1/3 has any reason for you to complete. Then once you have the last engine even if you wanted to do missions you travel between planets so fast it takes a long time to farm the asteroids to do the missions to get the gold you no longer even really have a usage for.
The item collection was far too inconsistent but other than that quite good. seemed to take forever for the longer shots and too much time where you cant see the turtle.
Base growth. It will likely take 1-2 months until you can evolve your fairy for the first time.