Steambirds Alliance Beta

honestly, i am addicted to this game. that said however, i hate some aspects of it and i rage quit daily pledging never to play again. if the full release doesnt vastly increase the player count and add a ton of healers and/or fix the permadeath losing everything crapola i'll be quitting for good... besides the micro transactions, which are anything but micro (aka 10$ for an extra ship, or layout page, or storage slots which they make mega annoying if you dont get) the biggest issue with the game is how you lose all your progress and equipment and items frequently. they sort of reward you for dying by giving you pilot points u can spend for very minor perm buffs, but honestly it's not enough and you are lucky to get many if any unless u had gotten to a level 20 ship. when you die, your ship goes back to a level 1, super weak and can't do anything. that's not a huge deal. what is the huge deal is you have 4 equipment slots for engines and guns etc that take a ton of work to upgrade and/or craft and you lose them all. if you want me to keep playing the game, at least make it where you get to keep your 4 equip slots of stuff, it's fine to lose your cargo, but you are adding insult to injury making u lose all ship levels, all cargo, AND all equipment including crafted equipment. if you go taking on level 20missions you will die a lot and keep losing all your good stuff. it can take days to try to earn it back, but good luck with that as you'll just die again losing all progress yet again. hell, if you want charge me $10 so i can perm keep my equip, i'd buy that upgrade. but this is honestly unplayable long term. there is enough ♥♥♥♥ in life to deal with, i don't need constant loss of all progress in a game to be one of them.