also a percentage of the time that missions fail would encurage people to head back to earth.....im currenntally 7 planets away from kepler and i have no intention on going home cause i see no reason to
it seems to me that after you hit 10 lazers they run out of things to shoot....and i find i just have all my people doing reserch in the hopes of making the ship go faster:) its a fun game though