This is a strange game. An "idle" RTS! There is no room for small ships as distraction, you get your mightiest ships out there and start pounding!
The game acknowledges you'll do the same thing over and over--to the point you can save your base layout and just rebuild on the next Prestige. This is more a time-saving convenience than an absolute necessity.
The Prestiges, unfortunately prevent you from making an infinite fleet. You have to start all over again. Quite frustrating if you have powerful ships, then return to the wimps again.
Achievements in this game DO something! Up to a point, anyways. You trigger an Achievement, you get...NEW RESEARCH! But later in the game, I guess they forgot to put them in? That's when you can't go any farther. I STILL believe and insist they forgot to put the Achievement Researches in. Maybe they were working on Lazy Galaxy 2? (Which is just strictly worse, unfortunately.)
Anyways, like all idles, or chewing gum, this is great fun for awhile, quit when it loses its flavor. Right now (March 28, 2025), it's $1.24, you can't go wrong for that!