difficulty

1. newbie - marginal spending +10-50%, no AI afterburner in the first circles, (limit of engineers of other teams) or (efficiency of the design center of other teams) -10-50%, efficiency of own design center +10-50%, wear of spare parts -10-50%. 2. middle - current settings. 3. hard -...

I found this really persuasive thread on Reddit which addresses how stupidly obtuse the game can be.

When you're playing a story-based game do you prefer to play on easy, Normal or hard difficulty settings? Sometimes I think the decision is made for you when easy mode skips a bunch of content (that really annoys me). Seriously, devs. Flipping quit it. Easy:if you basically want to kick back...

Obviously there will be a variety of difficulties, as well as sandbox, infinite money, and so on. That's great, but I want a really difficult mode where I'm stretched for cash and have to really make tough planning decisions to succeed. All the marketing for this game has done a great job...

We would purchase them via a monthly credit payment or for a percentage of our profits. Maybe kind of like a difficulty setting on some racing games, where you can turn off traction assist to earn more credits, but this time, these difficulty settings are software that interfaces with our ships...