I tried playing through UQM/SCII a couple years ago (massive props that the game is available in most Linux distros and you can simply search your standard dist

I tried playing through UQM/SCII a couple years ago (massive props that the game is available in most Linux distros and you can simply search your standard distro repos for `uqm` to get up and running), but could never get very far. Evidently I'm simply not playing the game with the correct sense of urgency. I spend the first couple months of in-game time gathering resources and exploring, and at some point the Ur-Quan invasion reaches me and I literally can't progress any further, because alien ships start making a bee-line for me and annihilate me in combat.