Just because there isn't air doesn't mean to can't board it. Jump in there hit the weapons or drones and jump out before you run out of air and heal. Of course if they are killing you before you can jump you might not have long enough to kill the weapons/drones. Engine upgrades are always nice for a...

I just had an almost no weapon run and a tiny amount of scrap run. This is following a run where I got all the weapons I could want and heaps of scrap. There aren't enough ways for us to mitigate randomness when we have bad luck. For boarding parties on the boss getting into a no win first stage is ...

Maybe you should try some thing different at the start. I died multiple times on the boss but then I changed my early - mid game strategy to focus more on boarding and won on my first play through with that strategy.

The no win situation is pretty easy to get into in second 1-2. Just get level 2 shields have 4 crew members so you can maximize your xp and then find a ship with 1 missile and 1 laser and wait for them to run out of missiles takes a bit of hull damage but you get max xp crew early on. If you have an...

It would be hard to strike the right balance on the power generator. You could make it so destroying a generator disabled 25-50% of the ships power like when you are in a storm so it is not the best target to go after. Would give you the option of letting your enemy chose 2-3 systems to take down to...