This game is so much fun. Do yourself a favor and experiment with the different techs, get in over your head, force yourself to fix problems in a way you never would otherwise.

Example: in a mission to hijack a siege ship, all the enemies were permenantly shielded. I had managed to kill the pilot, but about 15 enemies were in the control room, idling about. I was out of Subverter and Crash ammunition, had exhausted my Sidewinder teleporter and Stealth Shield, and had only a gun useless against shields and a Slipstream personal accelerator. I used my Slipstream to sprint past all of the guards, shoot out a nearby window to suck a few of them into space, and hop into the pilot's seat. Once there, I set a collision course with an enemy station. Then, the enemies nearby (there were still over 10 in the room while I did this) shot me and threw me out the window I'd shot out earlier. I remote-piloted my pod to rescue myself, and watched as the siege ship collided with my target station.

It shouldn't have worked. Given any other choice, I would never have done it. But in desperation, I said "... Eh, why not?"

13/10 would undermine the Sovereign economy again.

Pros:
- Space Pirate Ninja Gunfighter Magician pausable action
- Varied enemy types and mission objectives
- Fun problem solving gameplay allows many different solutions


Cons(ish):
- It can be a little hard to see keys/guards on some of the ship types. There is a simple mode that helps with this, though.
- It took some googling to figure out that the little blue and orange cards on my inventory screen, next to my money, were Standard and Armor Piercing ammo counts.

Look, just buy it. It's so much fun.