Thank you so much for your input! We appreciate the time you took to playtest are game and will take a detailed look at the issues you faced. We had considered a few things that may rectify these issues and are deciding wheter or not to add them to v0.0.2. These are: A Ship Advancement Table, Additional Room Contents, Repairing your Ship with the Repair Roll, and Detailing and numbering the different FAILURE_STATES to each have a RECOVERY_FUNCTION (a small dungeon that would bring you back to play).
We will add the "Scope" of the game at the beginning, since it is intended to be somewhat long form. We may also lower the required XP for leveling up and tie the chance to get the Cooridates to the Mother Planet to a HACK roll at the end of every Data-Station. We will take a look at DR's; that, in our opinion needs the most playtesting. If you have any suggestions for DR, we would love to hear them. Finally, we will make it more explicit that ship weapons cost energy and detail what happens when you run out (perhaps another FAILURE_STATE).
We will go ahead and add you under the Principle Playtesters section in the credits.
Thank you again!