Difficulty?

I do understand the nature if the game, especially since I have actually played the original rogue. But rogue did not have an easy mode. In fact no human won it. Some guys at Stanford had to write a program called rogue-o-matic to win it for them.

That said, easy is not easy. With the better ships it is easier. But with the starter ships it should not be called "easy". Perhaps consider making tutorial a full game and making that the intended mode to win with only started ships and no experience.

Or change the name to something that is not easy. Pretty much, by definition, easy should be the n00b setting. It isn't.