This doesn't seem to happen rarely.

Steam clocked my playtime at only 30 hours or so and it happened twice to me already.

Also, gameplay that takes place on planets would also be cool, but that's a fair long-shot.

Would take a lot to implement it I should imagine.

Well, I was talking about the sequel here, not a mod or expansion.

Quite frankly, I think a lot of these suggestions suck. Anyway what would really improve the game in a fresh direction would be to add real randomly generated locations on planets or space stations where you send your whole crew on a mission and where you can actually control them more in-depth than...

One of the major problems of the Vortex is also the lack of rooms. Look at the number of rooms in in some other ships and this one... if you do not evade a shot, it's almost guaranteed that some important system is hit, while other ships have many empty rooms. How exactly is the hit-chance for a roo...

The only way to explain why this mission is repeated again and again is the whole thing takes place in a crude simulation.

A game, in fact.

"The Vortex" or simply Engi Cruiser Layout B has real fun-appeal to me, because you start with just one guy who uses two repair and one anti-personell drone as substitutes for any other crewmates. My captain happened to be called Hector. So I thought it was a spectacularly funny (read: cle...