You do not want to be on my away team.

[hotpoo]

For the sake of humor and personal curiosity, it would be fun to see the total number of away team members slaughtered lost during harvesting / exploration missions. The numbers could be frightening. Perhaps we could bundle this with some sort of an achievement?

Also, is there a way to disable the "google checkout" validation each time a game is started / continued? My poor little tablet is rarely on an internet connection, and this frequently errors out. I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, as I was pretty certain that I played all weekend sans network connection with no issues (the checkout screen would disappear after a few moments). I'm not able to get in now (get a network connection error), and I won't be able to scratch this particular itch until I can get onto the home wifi.

[slayernz]

Ha ... I have run out of red ensign shirts for my crew so have resorted to stamping the back of their shirts/rags/steel-song uniforms with "Expendable". My biggest fear is that I might run out of ink before getting to the next port.

I would LOVE a tally of numbers of crew lost over time:
"In the 2 years since you began, you have lost 12 crew to deep space accidents, 35 crew during encounters in space, and 12592 crew to wilderness accidents."

[Cory Trese]

The license verification cache window ("google checkout") is all managed by Google.

They say that after a secret number of successful attempts the cache of the license will last for several weeks. I have had many conversations with players about this and they have all ended with a happy customer about a week after purchase.

[hotpoo]

An odd way to do it, but at least I have an explanation now. Thanks for that.

[slayernz]

You know, I've had the game for months now, and I get the license validation thing almost daily. Hmm, I need to fire a torp at Google HQ ... that'll teach them to not like a Cadarian Captain

[oldalchemist]

Same. The checkout runs almost every time I start a game.