Thanks! I agree, I really need to write a wiki or something. The problem is that this game started as a basketball managerial game and then got completely derailed as I kept implementing whatever I thought was cool at the moment.
I think there are mainly 3 themes to play for:
- Basketball: assemble the best possible team. Basically try to acquire as much money as possible to hire the best free agents;
- Money: just try to get as rich as possible, using the market and in the future your asteroids;
- Space adventure: get the best possible spaceship (more options will be available in future releases) and have fun in the spaceshooter game you can access from your team pane (button 'Space adventure').
I tried to combine and summarize these 3 themes by having a reputation score assigned to your team, which can increase based on all 3 conditions. In the Swarm pane there is a Top Ranking window where the best crews are listed.