This game has something wrong and I have not been the only one who noticed..first seems firepower has diminished considerably and I always run boosters. Second it seems firing seems to be off. Trying to kill mantis is harder as blasters seem to stop for a bit after awhile. Killing bosses on r4 was NEVER a problem for a pilot with Dominator and help now it seems 3 of us have problems and bosses are harder still. Forget r5 and Gizas. In the beginning 3 pilots 1 with a constructor was enough now that's changed. More and more this reminds me of my old game that the owners took it upon themselves to change the TOS and rules so they could make game more harder(challenging I believe they called it) because they implemented more options to purchase for gameplay. Not only that the game changed a lot after sponsorship...now it seems they have sponsors that want their share. I won't step in Tau Ceti due to near impossible missions and was told it was setup like this to forge comradery between players..well when you have a lot of different personalities in game and ask some who won't even tell you what drops on some planets then that's a bust. I talked to quite a few players and seems I am not alone..still looking for another game to play..but in all this it seems nothing will not be done like the last game and I left..which is my other option for this game if it continues.