@Noctilucus, you are right on all counts about the RTS battles. Let me give you an example. I used a Trainer that let me build as many robots as I wanted, of any type. Needless to say, I produced the best, most expensive units. In spite of this, it took over an hour to win the battle, and I still came close to losing it a couple times. At the end, despite producing robots on a constant basis (because the Trainer let me), I had produced 387 robots with the red team producing 548! All I can say is this proves the AI also must have unlimited robot build cpability on some level, or how could it produce twice as many robots as me when I had that Trainer!
After winning the battle I in no way thought I had cheated as much as I had 'lvelled the playing field' and I will use the Trainer for the RTS battles again after this experience.
Same goes for the black holes. Once you get 3 Dominator's it's practically impossible, and yet I believe they go up to EIGHT Dominators in a Black Hole!
Also, some of the text adventures are more like school tests, where you are required to do math rather than solve puzzles, which quite frankly is boring!
Lastly, it seems silly that after failing just one mission, a race doesn't like you any more.
I also don;t like that if you don't kill pirates two races don't like you and if you do kill pirates another two races don't like you!
Other than the above though, this is a brilliant game!
