For the first scenario, I would suggest, as soon as you get 50 scrap, immediately buy level 2 shields. It doesn't matter if you don't have enough power for it, you can always do something like disable weapons to have the extra shields up while you charge FTL and run from a very tough enemy. Level 1 ...

Getting a teleporter and dronebay is quite trivially easy if you are saving the scrap for them; you will be incredibly unlucky to go through a whole run without having them. The main point is to prioritise certain upgrades and strategy over others, to make the boss fight really easy.

Greetings, fellow players. I present here a guide to defeating the boss ship, almost guaranteed, almost every time. To show that this isn't pure theorycrafting, here is my highscores page: http://i.imgur.com/oZ28j.png Yes, I have a terrible win/game ratio. I could make excuses like "Sector 1 re...