Nice
This was a great game, basicly simple but had a lot of little tactics bult in. I loved the missles once i got them. After that it was fun just watching huge waves of missles blowing the ships up, i even replaced all my ion cannons with missles and then just had a few repair and eco centers up. ^_^ A great game indeed.
What could be improved? I dunno...
Well, you COULD go around playing other well-made defense games, such as Orbital Decay or Flash Defense TD to see if you can add various features to your game.
I think that you can't go wrong with the addition of a player-controlled main cannon. The trouble with a main cannon, though, is having to spend the time and effort to balance the power in skill required to use it compared to being totally dependent on automated turrets.
The addition of making spaceports to send ships would be nice, but the main problem with them is that the effectiveness of sending your own units to the enemy has been shown time and time again in many different defense games. The only defense games that I've seen that effectively uses the sending of your own units against attacking forces is Orbital Decay and other games that use the units as distractions, buying your main gun time to take out the enemy. Actually, Orbital Decay does this remarkably well, making each unit have an AI control that enables them to actively dodge oncoming attacks.
On that note, the dynamics of enemy movement would be nice to have. The movement of the fighters out of the carrier units appeared to not move in a set up-down movement, but instead, in a way that made them seem like they could fly around like 360 degree top-down shooter.
Adding other elements, like the Rock-Paper-Scissors type element system in games like Flash Element TD can be a double-edged sword, bringing extra diversity of gameplay while at the same time making things more complicated and frustrating than necessary for the player. The only frustrations that should be given to players are those that the players choose for themselves: in other words, difficulty levels.
I, personally, would definitely like a defense game with gameplay options. Maybe that's why Generic Defense Game became so successful. Perhaps a Generic Space Defense Game would work, putting in elements of top-down space ship shooters, tower defense, and tactical defense.
As for this particular game, Apocalypse difficulty was definitely difficult. It forced me to change tactics in order to finish it. The Apocalypse endboss was totally awesome, and certainly surprised and challenged me.
Wow
I loved this defense game. It was pretty much my ideal defense game, besides a few points.
I'm glad this one didn't have a player controlled cannon. I always hated those. (In reference to those under me.)
The only thing I could really ask for is that the place where you put the cannons and that were moved or put in a different order. And a few more choices on attack options, those few cannons weren't really enough.
Awesome
This is a really good game. The only bad things that i can see would be the delay time between waves and the bad income rate. There should also be a really powerful weapon in the later game.
Great game, BUT
The target priority is SHIT! Every time on hard mode, those big ships will come in with shields, and my missiles will knock their shields out, and THEN START SHOOTING AT SOME OTHER SHIP! Thus giving the first ship the time to recharge its shields and start the whole process over again, whilst hammering away at my planet. I die there every time not once have I gotten past that part, making this hair-tearingly frustrating to play! Besides that though it's a very well done and stylish game it just has some serious balance issues such as the price for the laser defense turrets. 600 B for something that won't even hit them back? And it certainly won't keep all their missiles out because its got such a poor refire rate. And that's after research cost.There's just about no way to keep your population up enough so that you can earn enough money to keep all your towers upgraded.
A frustrating game, but one that I keep coming back to play xD