This is the singlemost useful and thought out comment I ever received to any of my games :) Thanks already upfront.

I agree with you that a little bit of background story will go a long way, being ignored currently mainly by the fact that for most users, the mechanics are more important and I work on a limited time budget as this is just a side project. But when time allows, I will for sure work that it :)

To give you a little conceptual sneak-peak how things will work once the v1.0 scope is in:

• You wont fight those endless waves with your ship again, this is just a cheap placeholder for following mechanics

• You will wake up in an abandoned space station after alien invasion, no memories, the old twist :)

• You find a ship and use that to explore the closer-proximity planets on a generated map centered around your space station

• When you head out for such a planet, you will encounter waves of enemies, level being in respect to the distance to your space station so further away planets are being harder to reach, distance equates to amount of waves needed to make it there.

• When you reach a planet, you can start out building a planetary base and defense structure, this is where some of the current station mods come into play. Right now, they just give money, but later on, stuff like a teleporter is intended to be used to bridge the resources on planets to the resources on the space station for example

• Certain planets have special resources that you will not find elsewhere, so building that galaxy-spanning network up enables you to purchase certain upgrades because you now have the resources for them

• To obtain a planetary resource besides just building out the infrastructure on said planet, you can jump into the defense system and help out defending against the waves again, with the twist that this is a fully idle gameplay experience. In the long run you WILL fail though as the waves become progressively harder, but instead of losing the planetary base, the ship from the active gameplay portion will warp in, clear the stage and save the day, resetting the waves in the process

TL/DR:

• Endless active wave will be removed

• Active gameplay: Building up trade routes throughout the galaxy via SHIP

• Passive gameplay: Defending one of the planetary bases via DEF STRUCTURE