Difficulty?

@admiralgeezer. See this ship? http://imgur.com/YnSXu0W I used a distress beacon and pulled three of them to one of the smaller space stations. They blew up both me and the space station. I pulled five of the wanderer version to a battle station. When I died, the station was out of shields and rapidly losing hp. There were still four of them left. These ships should not appear at turn 6 in easy mode. You certainly should not be getting two or three spawned in a trap from clicking a loot box. Also, in easy you should always start with the same money, not random. Getting 4 upgrades and only 800 scrap is not an easy start. I assume the two times I got literally nothing were bugs.

@noncom. In my experience the ship I fly has no impact on the enemies I face. Better ships are just better. Though I haven't unlocked all of them. I strongly suspect this is a big part of the problem. In my experiments the gunboats are all too slow, far far too slow. They cannot close with enemy missile ships fast enough (or at all in some cases). Making carriers outperform them. That said, I did have some great runs with a zephyr. The hurricane and Raven were both markedly worse than it. The guardian is also far worse than the Nightingale. It's higher hull allows it to survive spike damage, but it has many fewer weapons so longer sustained fights it suffers badly. Especially the limit of one side with no defenses at all is brutal against multiple enemies when you are alone.

I'll have the resolution and Memphis soon. Memphis looks like a horrible gunship being slower than the zephyr and with fewer guns. But the resolution looks pretty good from what I can see.