Good game... loved Orion and this has a lot of the same elements. Interesting changes today, think it put the balance off. I agree that Technology can/should be persistent, but shouldn't stack with each planet. Seems like my tech levels are the same when I add a new planet, but then seem to be multiplied for each planet. Yesterday I couldn't come close to beating Pirate Cove on hard, now today it was a cake walk.
BUGs and performance, nothing worse than waiting 3 secs for the cannon to fire after you clicked the button then other times it is immediate. Not worth the frustration.
1/5 - great concept, but impossible to get to the objectives of 25k people. Got to wave 50 of ships and the game went back to level 47, flipped out and sent at least 10 waves at once.
Nice game... but it only took me two tries to be able to do it in the first round, and I still had one shot left over. Add some more stuff to make it more challenging! 4/5