This game is great. The universe looks huge and the upgrades, ships, combat and graphics make it very compelling and fun to play. Players REALLY must read the help/tips menu. Building while pauses is essential. My one criticism is that the game needs a speed setting. Even with pause the combat is just way too fast sometimes. I ended up using cheat engine to slow the game down from time to time -- if nothing else to be able to watch some of my attack runs -- and to be able to react to changes. There is so much going on on the part of the screen that you cannot see that you miss out on a lot of the action because you are building like a madman!
Also being so fast, you miss out on the great little exchanges of fire and graphics of ships spinning out and blowing up. Enable speed hack and put it at 10-20 percent and you get a great show
Otherwise nice job!