Great game, unique gameplay
To avoid frustration build these buildings on the bottom floor: Refinery, Deposits, Hangar, Tractor Beam.
Do not build these anywhere else, do not build anything else on the bottom floor. Do not build storage there. (Refined materials are beamed to storage).
Have only one two part corridor leading out to the turbolift. Later you can build a decontamination station in there.
This bottom floor will be where most infestations happen during normal business. Build it in such a way that will make patrolling it easy. Place turrets everywhere. Do not be afraid to rearrange the whole floor, it costs nothing.
This game is great, I keep coming back to it, it has a unique gameplay I have not experienced elsewhere, even the atmosphere is growing on me. I wish it had more content. It is a lot of fun to search for materials which you can use to expand the ship or trade for new modules.
The "most helpful review" is wrong. You have many ways to contain infestations and to notice them. You will see modules out of energy on the map. Ammunition is not a problem that needs to be automated, you will rarely build it.
There are robots that can be built to automate defenses and energy module repair.
Of course there are many ways to get screwed, this is what makes it interesting.
The crew is not incompetent, they will fight the aliens once they gain some experience. They will work faster if their intelligence stat is high. Of course you can run around like crazy and do everything yourself, but it is fun to have a crew working everything themselves while you watch over it.
If there is anything I can complain about it would be the planetary expeditions which are somewhat boring, I mostly just let the crew do it alone nowadays.
Also I want more content, and a longer game overall. Once you get the hang of it, you finish a run in like 2-3 hours with all difficulty setting set to max, and after 20-30 runs there is nothing more to try. But I still want to play it more.
Gimme more of this!
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