upgrade pop-up is most detrimental than any bullet. there should be an option to turn pop-up into manual invocation.
Hmm! This could be done I think. You mean that you could set in menu / options if you'd want to level up manually or if it's automatic pop-up? Hmm. If manual, I guess you should be allowed to choose your own hotkey to level up, too. I'll ponder how to best make this happen.
In the meanwhile, there's now leaderboard available (refresh your browser tab if it doesn't show). On the leaderboard there is a link to a "black box" which tells you details of that particular run - what modules were chosen in which order and so on.
In the main menu it shows top3 runs on the difficulty setting you have currently selected. You can check top-10 in different difficulties, and all time bests (old versions) by clicking the leaderboard menu button.
Good point. :) I'll ponder on this. There's a slight chance it makes the game a bit too easy, as you could then wait with your level ups to get that emergency repair. Then again it makes the game harder as well, as you're hoarding levels and missing out on upgrades in the meanwhile. This could even it out in the end. But I hear you! Thank you for excellent feedback.
Anyways. I'm trying to refrain from patching this weekend, as I got the telemetry working just yesterday and now I gather some data on the runs. Already I found and fixed some issues. For example I noticed that there were surprising amount of people leaving in under 10 seconds into the game. Figured it was because the game screen didn't focus back when you clicked the Itch iframe to fullscreen - and people couldn't move anymore. Now the game forces you to click back and activate the window, or choose full screen mode inside the game. Under 10 second games dropped significantly.
So I hope the next patches will be meaningful ones. :) Now I try to just watch for couple of days and not tinker at all. ;)