Nexus Legacy

The game is slow, boring, unintuitive, and I am deleting it now.

I always found it fascinating when a dev is trying their hardest to make a game LESS fun then it was. This started out good when I first began. Saw a lot of things I liked like no Pay2Win nonsense, a cool theme and interesting mechanics. And as time went on a lot of GOOD QoL changes were made and ive really started to invest myself into the game. I joined a fun loving group of potatoe based lifeforms, lost some ♥♥♥♥ due to trail and error, learned and got better. Which felt good. It felt good playing the game, messing around and finding out. But as time went on ive started to see some glaring issues with what I can only call "The Fear of Loss" Lets take the AI officer, which used to just evacuate your fleet if attacked by either sending it to another safe planet or scattering it aslong as long you had the fuel. This made taking some one by surprise 100% impossible unless they either had no fuel or forgot to set it. In my eyes I started this as a PvP/Industrialist kind of game but actually committing to PvP turned out to be.. an illusion. Both sides have TOO many safegaurds against loss. An attacker can literally just say "Oh noes if my fleet starts losing ill set it to retreat at 30% cus I picked a bad fight." Which usually meant losing near nothing for picking a bad fight and just repairing whatever you lost.. nearly 0 consequence. You can also just recall the fleet, if they are being reinforced and all youde have lost was fuel. The defender can use the afformentioned AI officer to just auto evac their fleet, losing their resourcess but gaining a 24hour shield so they cannot be attacked any further. Some buildings might get damaged but the repair costs are literally peanuts.. The advanced AI officer will even evac your resources making it an even less taxing experience.. In other words, where other games would just say, "You got hit now decide, continue or quit" this game says "Nothing can go wrong don't worry just farm up". While I get the idea of implementing safegaurds. I believe in this case the training wheels didn't just stay on, they bolted on 5 more sets and made you wear a pillow. Just to make sure you don't feel like you lost anything. I have been attacked and I have attacked, I lost ♥♥♥♥ and continued on. I never intend to just quit cus I either got hit by some one stronger or I took a bad fight. But these systems seem to be particularly made for those kinds of "quitters". In my eyes it just makes the game unfun and boring. TLDR tho cus its getting long int he tooth.. Game has/had potential but a recent patch bascially ffed up ALL travel times, introduced a "Rested" mechanic that punishes active play, cus why would you want an active player base, and inconsistencies across the board. Tons of ease of use buttons missing, like a SEND ALL button for jumpgates or moons, now you have to send every ship individually. Basic things like templates for Expeditions.. and a market layout that I could only describe as a concrete octopus. And the worst.. RANDOM FFING CHANCE to lose your ENTIRE fleet, or lose 30% or lose 10% based on RNG when doing the PvE content. It just rolls on a table and if unlucky you either lose contact entirely, lose 30% and all your cargo or lose 10% and keep your ♥♥♥♥.. with 0 counterplay whatsoever.. I will continue to play cus.. sunk cost fallacy and what not but please, PLEASE do NOT start a new season while this game is FAR from functional or balanced. Especially when the dev doesn't understand how to adress some balance issues and just takes a sledgehammer to it..