This is the definiton of how to make a creative game! It has a certain mysterious atmosphere(with newspaper quest its escalated quickly) and story. When you solve a puzzle you know why you slove it. May be this sounds unimportant but beleive me it is very crucial for this genre. This is beatiful piece of work. Kudos!
Beside all of the rigthful complaints about some issues below. There is a hard work and style in this game..I applause you Devs..5/5..Ps: remember this is a free game guys be kind...
You mentioned about the targetless wepons. Auto turrets will be great add on. And also may be you can add some color to the missons like: Mine a rare astroid(or a certain astroid) guarding with bunch of strong ships which contains 2 or three officers (or a hideout with high spawning rate) and misson reward could be a random rare(epic, artifact) item.
4 stars for this nice work. Will be 5 if A star map, longer story, moarrr items(of course), different(preferably bigger, badder) ships. Other than Kudos!
Ps: Game finished when i finally got my missile fabricator... T.T ...
First things first. You did and doing an amazing job! Kudos. After the latest patch the infinite pirate officer in sivxi was stopped. But now till 17th systems shows green but at 17 no officer is spawning. I cleaned the system many times but no changes.. Fyi...
if its green the officer is dead and the system is safe. what changed is the officer will not spawn unless you beat the officers before it. so if you wipe map 0,1,2... then jump past 3 and head to 4, no officer will spawn until you clear map 3.
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nah, i'm not gonna turn this into a freemium. when i release for download, i'll just take donations.