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Refreshing the window did give me my hooks back, but they would disappear again eventually. I'm not certain as to what the trigger was exactly, but it seemed to be something to do with intercepting the projectiles that would be the cause of me losing them. Not sure how exactly you have it on the back end, but it's possible it is subtracting an extra hook for being destroyed, but still only restoring the 1 when it would've returned? It felt more common when I intercepted very close to my ship, but that could also just be because I felt under more pressure and thus noticed it more readily.

I managed to effectively softlock my progress shortly after getting enemy ships showing up. I didn't have the titanium for the defense system yet, and you can't grab them. I started to permanently lose hooks to them as well, being unable to fire them. Eventually I lost all my hooks and by then I was a sitting duck. They'd shoot me and make me lose more titanium then I could get at that point as my only way of pulling in asteroids was with the graviton nexus skill.

If this were fixed, I'd love to come back and see more of it. But right now, it's incredibly frustrating to be faced with something that I literally have no means to get the solution for the problem.