Like somtimes if you get 'lucky' you get really far into the game and other times, you get wrecked after the first battle
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Also, sometimes some battle are just so broken. I have no idea what to max early in the game because whatever I max, I always have this weakness which somehow the games know and tries to inflict as much damage on it as possible when I'm not even that far into the game, barely passing 900point mark! With the second ship you unlock with the lvl3 ion blaster and builtin drone I was getting owned with lvl3 shield, maxed out doors protection, 6 crew memebers against enemy who had an ion blaster, missles which ignore all shield and ship attacking drone.
After the next game I started, literraly my second jump resulted me near a star with an enemy ship with drones, shield ion blaster. I was like
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The shear amount of luck you need to sucessed is just astonishing.