You're confusing active suppression for inability. The Romulans aren't idiots, nor short on genius, they're deluded at their core, to the point that their intelligence alone explains the long-term survival of their civilization. The Picard series didn't invent that about them, and the stable 8-star-star-system believed to have been created by super-tech in Romulan space is old lore as well.
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Did you forget that single-player and perma-death are things?
That said, the real problem with what you're looking for vs this game is down to the premise: Interstellar travel without tech that feels like cheeting isn't a pew pew space-ship game. Generation-or-cryosleep-ship-simulator-gone-wrong isn't out ... yet.
Both BoTW and ToTK needed room to make the various traversal methods necessary and worth the trouble of acquiring and learning to use them.
Personally, I enjoyed the hell out of exploring both maps entirely on foot.
Amused me greatly that the Romulans didn't see this coming. Okay, who am I kidding? I liked them before all that and seeing the flaw in their reasoning take multiple episodes before the big reveal kinda pissed me off.
It's basically how the Tal Shiar duped themselves and their entire civilization.
I've played with two of my children at the same time. During the Utopia expedition, we saw dozens of other players. Where have you been?
You mean PVP? It's got Playter vs Environment in spades.
Carmen San Diego?
Yvraine & Guilliman: "Kinky!"
Also, upvoted for dat ass. What a cute way to learn the "real" Imperial Truth...
... excepting that it's not collected like so.
Like I said, maybe you. I didn't see a value judgement in your comment, beyond the fact that you thought of it in a way I hadn't.
Still, so many of the "OC"s out there are spec-art, done on commission, that I don't really see the label as claiming to be an artist, or the artist, who composed a given work. OP creditted the AI used(if not any "in the style of" prompts...), which is more than a lot of these kind of posts have provided in the past.
I'm actually disappointed its not frat-boy humor. Just more of, even when he's actually pragmatic, its in a way that everyone else has to live with.