Oh, great idea! I would have *never* thought have charging straight at an armada that can attack me in space, while I cannot, and attempt to take down their 15+ ships against my one ship that will die before I can take out one of theirs. You are truly a genius. (yes I did try this, so don't say I'm exaggerating here.)
My thoughts of space was it was going to be a way to look back at your progress through evolution, among other things. In the demo videos I watched before release, in space your were pretty much god, not an exploitable puny creature with a run down space ship that has a laser while others have far more advanced weapons and multiple ships! what happened to the element of playing around with colonies, terraforming planets, interacting with civilizations that don't have nukes pointing at your face, and not getting blown up every god forsaken minute??? If you've gotten this far you should be rewarded, not have a freaking huge difficulty curve spike.