The game starts of slow, but once you get the right units and gear it literally speeds up tenfold. 10 seconds per battle, you can't really ask for that to be sped up any more, especially since half of that time is navigating menus between battles.
I just got 2 Ledgends on the same level at hard Tesire. Fun how you can upgrade them both at the same time and only lose 3 units (price of upgrading 1).
I beat mission 3 and 8 on Crazy with just 4-5 Solar Stations powering loads of Miners. Mission 3 spend your starting resources building 5 stations and as many miners as possible then any minerals gathered on upgrading miners, you shouldn't need energy but an upgrade or 2 may help. Mission 8 fully upgrade 4 solar stations, build about 30 miners clustering as many as you can within the larger asteroid areas then upgrade them. The solar stations positioned properly can cover all asteroids without relays on both missions.
You can win mission 4 and 5 by building a giant line of Energy Relays and Solar Stations to the north, if you run out of minerals then pause and go back down to sell some stations. This works on Crazy.
This is the last Unity game I need badges for and they don't work. As for laggers play on games with ping limits, the lower the better, you won't see any.
The Warp Core should reduce the rate at which focus is decreased or increase the recharge rate with each upgrade to it (even if just a small amount). Unless you can beat the boss rush which 99.99% of people aren't going to do then having it is useless and takes up a valuable ship mod slot. Unless you really need to keep it just for the sake of it then sell it when you need the money, even when it's fully charged the effect isn't very good and is rather useless at that point.
For Hyperion use the red ship with 2 shields and antimatter bombs, right at the start move up to him and use 2 bombs (or all 4) which will take out his front arms and the fight is fairly easy from there, pretty much the less parts he has the easier he becomes. On mission 24 use affliction for an easy time. For Atropos the same applies as Hyperion but you'll have to learn his attacks, imo his most dangerous attack by far is during his last phase when 2 orbs align with your ship, I suggest using bombs there.
I got 4* on 1-2, 1-3, 1-6, 1-7, 1-8, 1-9, 1-10, 1-12, 2-1, 2-3, 2-4, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10, 2-11, 2-12, 2-13, 2-17, 2-18, 2-20. A total of 20 levels. You can hit 2 blocks at the same time by hitting between them and also bounce balls of wood then another nearby surface to destroy them in 1 ball.
For lvl 19 instantly put the way point on the fire totem and build a path around green's base to get to it, beat in 1 min :) After lvl 20 you can beat every lvl easily using Water Storm a few times, on lvl 30 you'll probably have to build up your base a bit, moving away from the enemies, then Water Storm them to death.