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I realy do love the space survivor genre, but there needs to be a new way of making the spaceships a bit more useless on the surface.
I mean, the movement options of the capital ships with their complete factory and gigantic mining lasers is so op, that once you even manafacture your first 6 thrusters, there is no need to make any hovercraft/planes/cars/literally anything else.
Rather than space survival like on a deserted island, space survival like a flea living on the surface of a dozing Lovecraftian monster, or like a criminal in a cyberpunk setting. There's a lot of power in building up to capital ships, but it catches so much attention that you'll still want to build other things just to relax into.
The human nervous system has sympathetic ("fight or flight") and parasympathetic ("rest and digest") modes. Activating a space ship should be a change like that: you can't farm or build or do research, you need to move fast and get a job done before something kills you.