i found the first handful of missions very helpful as a new player, the tooltips that pop up when you hover over purchases are great too. maybe we could get something on the systems screen that shows what you need more of to take over a planet, a little box at the side that says "you need ... more culture to include this system".
all in all, this is a great game and i think it had a lot of potential, thanks for the regular updates
isnt the intro sound effect from gemcraft? im not sure if theyre needed or not but if they are, did you aquire the required permissions to use the clip?
might just be me but i feel the difficulty curve is a bit steep. i like the game from the little i can manage to pass, i love the idea of enemy towers but the gap in difficulty between levels 3 and 4 is ridiculous. i flew through level 1-3 with no trouble at all, level comes up and bamm i suddenly cant get past wave 3-4 without being destroyed. again, might just be me being rubbish, it just seems a bit steep for me. as a lot of other people are saying, we could do with a speed control and maybe skill trees but thats just something i personally like in a game.
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