Does anybody remember whether effects increasing (or decreasing, by the way) Rate of Fire, or damage of ships do anything for carriers other than the snails one (which actually has it's own blaster which is of course affected by such)?

I'm not the first to post this, but since it still hasn't been addressed I guess I'll post it again. If you lose a single mission during a campaign you get a crippled commander. All their ships never go above 75% hp and they lose other powers as well. The game warns you "That commander is crippled, maybe pick a different one" if you attempt to use one. But...if that's your ONLY commander then you are forced to play that way. And since you can't give them a rest my understanding is they don't recover....

Normally you get them through missions and about 2 per campaign. when i had 2 left only one appeared during the whole campaign and now i cant find any more cards on the map and i have already played 2 more campaigns

I just bought the game a few minutes ago and was playing though the 101 tutorial. On the second battle I got a black screen. The game was still running and I could hear my ships getting hit so I tabbed to the desktop (which displayed and acted normally) a...

He has some intertube video about Space Tyrant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhYRSQ062Nc