This game isn't bad
I didn't really have a like or dislike about this game. You could improve it slightly by not needed to pay the guy for protection either take it off or make it last longer than 30 days maybe a year or 2. Plus you said you could hunt pirates for money but i played many times and never found any, maybe add a button to get bountys for them. Just take some time to think of some more improvements. Also, take off the crappy repeating flying music make it some good music.
You people are retards
Why would pirates attack a small, tiny ship with nothing of value on it? And if you complain about not having money, GET A LOAN! or sell your drones.
Weak
I remember playing the first one and it seemed fun, but this one was too... shitty. Couldn't find any pirates to start, and for the guy who said "creator had this amazing idea where pirates don't attack smaller ships" is a fucking idiot.
Pirates would rather attack smaller ships because it's easier and less chance of getting killed. They don't fucking sit around saying, "Let's wait for a bigger ship!"
Still, if your into these kind of games you should check out Starport:GE (google it).
I liked it but
I have always like taipan because its alot harder to get started than other games of it's kind. There were a few bugs one that I found the third time I played was I had just saved a game and came back to continue next thing i know alloy and something else became free to buy on new terra. So you can imagine how quickly that game was finished.
Needs a couple of things.
It's good, now all you need is a chance to become a smuggler or pirate yourself and the game will be almost perfect.