Hades' Star: DARK NEBULA

All around a great game almost everything about it is amazing, I do have one complaint that I don’t see anyone talk about the “ranked” matches for blue stars isn’t really “ranked” at all rank matches are supposed to put you up against people of your skill level but it ends up putting you in matches where you have one person around your level and the others are like level 300+ and have a buffed out ship then they just bully you and the other guy so in the end you get almost nothing except a few hundred hydrogen, and the only way you can get close to winning is if the guys with the big ships decide to take mercy on you then at the end they bully you and you still don’t get enough to get you what you want and you have to do the process again and again.

1. Update the game so the text when you click on transports shows the % of artifacts, so players can see in stride during red stars which artifacts have been boosted. 2. also change the UI to show which have been boosted (glowing color instead of flat color for those artifacts which have been boosted? Something like that) 3. Artifact salvage value. Because red stars are no longer able to be done infinitely (hydro farming isn’t a thing anymore) make artifacts worth more to salvage. This gives players the choice of using hydro for more red stars, using it to transpo trades between planets, or literally spending it within seconds to empty planets with trade relay. 4. Update transpo trade boosts to actually be usable- at RS8 level, transpo trade boosts are NOT worth it, as trade relay eclipses their use completely. Make it a trade-off, more work to conduct the trade routes and use the boosts, but more reward for that work. Trade relay gives decent boost but it should be for casual gamer not wanting to take the time to trade

I do appreciate the ad free game, this game is not a cash grabbing game at all. I so overall love this game. I mostly want to write this review to address some complaints about the recent dark nebula update. My main complaints is that red stars are much less exciting now. Where I used to have 3 battle ships, 5 transports, and 4 miners all doing separate things causing me to multi task and over watch lots of areas of the map, which I found very exciting. It gave a fun slow paced strategical feel to the game. As compared to post update I only have 1 miner, and 2 transports cause anything more then that costs way to much hydrogen (fuel) to run. I have a fleet of 14 ships but really could get by with 6. (3 battleships, 2 transports, 1 miner). It totally killed the feeling of progressing as a fleet. Also I think it’s to fast paced now. Now I don’t have to multi task at all, watch the clock to make sure I have the time to make a risky move, or stress about an entire fleet staying safe, and efficient. Red Stars are to easy now, and don’t yield much benefit. Salvaging artifacts barely pays anything at all. Not worth the hydrogen it costs to obtain them. And with the limits they put on hydrogen production I am now limited to how much I can play each day. I used to be able to burn up more time then I’d like to admit running Red Stars and could gather hydrogen as long as I put the time and effort in, I could play as much as I wanted. Now I get to do one red star every 6 hours when my research station has some open slots, which a RS takes me like 8 min. So I get 8min of play time every 6hours… even less then that if I do spend the hydrogen to run more then 2 transports. But I will admit Blue Stars are way more fun, and rewarding. They did a great job on the blue star rework.