Pirates! (I hate those filthy bandits.)

Hi,
With you on the ammo thing. I wish you don’t have to replace the energy cell so quickly.
I have not experienced pirates trying to board me yet, I just got to the second system and so far just 1 pirate encounter. Am on medium difficulty.
I did notice though that you can close the vents on doors and lock them. I also saw an option to vent atmosphere at the airlock. Assuming that the pirates board with no space suits, maybe it would be possible to move the crew out of the airlock room, close the vents, locks the doors, and vent the atmosphere to kill them or knock them out.
If anyone has tried this, please let me know what happened.

As turrets are energy weapons, it would seem logic for them to draw power directly from the reactor than using energy consumables.

As for venting the atmosphere, the mechanism you describe looks very similar to the one that is findable in FTL.