This reminds me that one of the tricks I used to use to identify which difficulty jumper the game was set to was to leave exactly 1 mothership on the first boar

This reminds me that one of the tricks I used to use to identify which difficulty jumper the game was set to was to leave exactly 1 mothership on the first board. If it would try to capture your fighter after a few sweeps through, you knew it was on the easy jumper setting.