The ships just shoot at each other without any interaction, no weapon facings, or ship crews, planetary invasion essentially is just a bunch of "dots" to overcome...
Would love to see some of the game a little bit less abstract and see more "space opera" employed.
Like knowing there's a Transport in orbit and knowing there's 5,000,000 troops with plasma weapons and heavy armor in orbit are completely different things in the storyline of your game.
I get there's a lot of fanboys on, however, if noone ever questions you, and everyone is just kissing your ass constantly - you kind of end up like George Bush Jr.