i have now had a bit more time with this game. holy is it impossible.
first i do have to correct one of my criticisms of getting lost though. there does seem to be an arrow pointing at the mothership, idk how i missed that.
on the other hand saving does not work like i thought. i thought saving would save your current scrap. it does not. this practically makes progress impossible. getting enough scrap for an upgrade and getting a shop ship before you die is a near impossible feat, one that i couldnt achieve in a ONE HOUR Session. Im pretty sure upgrades save, so progress might be possible, but honestly getting an upgrade might genuinely take me 3 hours for a minor upgrade that may not save. im not doing that.
Its a bit sad. There is a Game here, one that is admittedly fun and one that i want to continue playing, but making Zero progress after an hour of stressed attempts of me trying to just get one upgrade really destroys any will to continue playing. it might take 10 hours of attempts at this rate to get enough upgrades to stay alive long enough to progress more consistantly, assuming harder ships dont appear beforehand and make progress impossible.
I know the game is an old project, but plz find it in your heart to update it to have saving save scrap. yeah it makes repairing useless, but otherwise the game is pretty much unprogressable.