GodinDetails

I'm wondering what your overall design philosophy is here.  I know that much of the game is 'as shipped' but there are some things here that are bothering me in the ways in which you guys have changed what was there originally.   For example: the mission text is vague, poorly written, and often misleading.  This doesn't make for an interesting play experience, it just makes it frustrating.  I have dyslexia.  Anymore, with all the work I've put into it, I don't have problems with reading.  It's taken work, but I've gotten past the issues that I have.   That being said, when you put up a wall of text up, with few punctuation marks, or improperly used punctuation, or run-on sentences without rhyme or reason, that continue well beyond the realm of understanding and ramble without rambling, have self contradictory meanings, and rely upon me reading the text three times...   I hope you get the idea.   Some of the text really looks like it was written by a non-native speaker who was trying to translate to English without a complete understanding of what was being written.   Those are just a couple of issues I have with the text.  Before you ask, yes I do think I could do better.  Provide me what you have, and give me the format you want it in, and I'll edit the hell out of it and provide something that will make everyone involved proud to put before a public audience.   That brings me to the second half of where I have an issue.  In live, the Terran Trader mission 'Reactor Leak' mission wasn't anything like what you have here.  The ship was HUGE.  In fact, it was so big that the first time I played a Trader, I was sure that they meant something BEHIND the ship that was sitting there, so I flew every which way around the ship, looking for something that looked like it had a reactor leak.   Your ship is invisible from the Garbage Scow.  I mean, it literally is not visible on the screen, and the mission text tells you to go to the Garbage Scow.  There is a difference between difficult and mean, and right now, that mission is just plain mean.  I have no issues with a difficult game.  I welcome the challenges that were designed into this game or I wouldn't be here.   That being said, when you make a mission just painful like this...it makes me want to change it.  Enough that I'm here writing this to you with no real hope that you're going to respond.   Look, if the mission text specified that you had to head off into the dark, and gave a direction, even THEN it would be a difficult mission to complete.  The real problem is, the mission text for this mission is especially nonsensical.  Most of the Trader text is ridiculous, but it is worse for this mission.   Anyway, this is my statement.  I know.  You're probably not going to change anything, but I'm not just complaining. That isn't an idle offer.  I will go through and edit all of the in-game text you have and make it cleaner.  I want this to be a game that we can all truly enjoy.