tutorial text in the beginning a little overwhelming all at once
I definitely agree. I was too lazy to split this out into levels to introduce things one-at-a-time. Then I saw the "Single Location" wildcard and thought, "nice save!"
I think I expanded my base a few times, but didn’t really see an indication of that beyond the potential number, but then it went back down to 0 later on?
The UI is pretty bad. All base sizes are shown at the top of the screen, so the expansion potential goes down as your base size goes up.
Glad you still had fun and definitely drop me a link if you make a space game! I enjoy these :-)