Mineral Defense

This is basically Rogue Tower, but slightly different. It's a fun little game to fiddle around with and then move on once you've beat it. There are several things the devs could fix to make the game more enjoyable: 1) Make it impossible for the path to split in the first 5 waves. It's absurd how often I get a split on waves 1-5 and while you can still win on the easy planet, on the hard planet you will almost always lose. The early splits also make pushing for higher waves (100+) basically impossible. There's no reason to have 100% RNG based path splits in the first 5 waves, it's just annoying and forces you to restart a lot. 2) Standardize the starting minerals. There's a small chance you basically fill the entire first tile with minerals which is a huge advantage because not only can you claim a bunch of them for early cash, but then you get 2, 3, and even 4 agency bonus on your miners which massively propels your early game economy. The only thing that sucks is you have to restart 10+ times to get this and it's an un-fun, stupid mechanic that I have to sit there clicking restart for 15 minutes to get a good starting tile when you could just make the starting tile the same every time. 3) More tower depth. There are a few towers that buff other towers. Oil buffs Flamethrowers, Ice buffs Cannons, the Volt Tower buffs all damage on its target, but these buffs are small and generally not worth going for (I get a few Volt Towers, but they're so expensive in both cost and energy upkeep that beyond a few they aren't worth it at all). The Oil tower itself is useless so you're better off buying other towers and building more Flamethrowers if you need them. The Cannon tower is useless after the early waves so there's no point in building the Ice Tower because it only buffs the Cannon. The Volt Towers buff is fine, but the tower itself sucks. This tower synergy mechanic should be rethought with better synergies between better towers. For example, the Ice Tower applies brittle which only buffs the damage of heavy kinetic towers which is literally only the Cannon tower. Why isn't the Sniper Tower a heavy kinetic tower? Why is the Rail Gun tower an energy tower? Rail Guns shoot blocks of metal which would be heavy kinetic damage. There are several corrosive towers, but nothing that interact with corrosion. 4) More upgrade depth. Why is every upgrade increase range, fire rate, or damage? Why is there nothing unique about any of the upgrades? Why is there not at least an AOE increase for the Missile Towers? Why no crit multiplier upgrade for the Snipers? Why no increase damage for every second the Laser Tower is shooting the same target? 5) Rebalance XP. Why does the hard planet give XP at the same rate as the easy planet? There's no reason to play the hard planet until after you've grinded out XP on the easy planet for all your upgrades. Why are the upgrades so insanely expensive? It takes hours and hours to get started, but as soon as you have enough stuff to effectively get to wave 100 on the easy planet you can get 100x faster research points and then unlock everything all at once and dump a bunch of points into the endless upgrades.