Really cool effort but it might be better to just document the game mechanics really well, reimplement an open source version and then use it as a base to impro

Really cool effort but it might be better to just document the game mechanics really well, reimplement an open source version and then use it as a base to improve it, OpenTTD style. Stars! was fun for the day but had a lot of frustrating problems as well, in particular how much effort it required to complete a turn in the later stages due to the lack of automation features. And of course some nicer graphics wouldn't go amiss. The hard part is knowing why exactly it was compelling despite apparently violating all the rules of good game design...