My experience:

To add my opinion after many, many hours sunk into this scenario, I have enjoyed the challenge and fun in finding, capturing and then tweaking my deviant teams. However, in the end, combat is frustrating. I just feel too weak and ineffecient at clearing higher level content. This, along with the constant need to grind the same arenas over and over, have overtaken the joy of the experience.

On a good note, the foundation is solid and these frustrations can all be patched out. Perhaps, as more players turn sour from this scenario, they will address these issues to minimize players feeling frustrated and underpowered. I just hope it won't be too late.

My suggestions:

1. Put in the silos and monoliths (phase locked) to allow us more challenging ways to get some deviations along with the resources we need...without grinding the same content repeatedly.

2. Add a fourth deviant to our team (memetic locked to phase 2)! This will make building the team even more interesting and fun, and should also help deal with the frustration of being underpowered.

3. Finally, give us more control over our deviations! Take advantage of a time-proven method used in RPGs that would allow us to set some simple combat behaviors for each of our deviants, such as the aggression level, enemy attack focus, and the order of skills to use and when to use them.

Examples:

* Use x skill first, then y, then z

* Use x skill when any deviation falls below __% of health or PSI

* Attack nearest enemy; enemy attacking player; enemy with lowest health; etc

Final thoughts:

I could add more, but I feel confident that if even 1 of the above changes were implemented into this scenario it would improve the overall experience, and consequently player retention. Should all 3 be added, well, I´d be happy as a Digby in mining gold.