I likewise haven't played to far in - and I agree the style of missions is fairly simple so far - but thats not the main problem. I'll come to that in a second... that said I
really love this thing, the effort put into it shows massively and you guys have done a brilliant job.
On to my personal problem... in FS and FS2 the token "big ship" was always a massive focal point and it was a thing of fear to be anywhere around it most of the time - ships died rapidly at its hands.
However in Inferno some of these big ships seem to not be anything like as fearsome as they used to be:
Spoiler ahead: The Diablo was
scary when it came through the node. I was genuinely worried about it. It came, slapped the fleet and left. I figured this was going to be a loosing battle for some time. But the next mission it seemed to get obliterated with very little effort on the part of the good guys.
It just seems that there's a lot of big ships, no real explanation as to how they came to exist (remember what a fuss was made about the construction of the Colossus?) and they seem to get wiped from space just as easily.
As I say, no real problem - but something I wanted to mention. Overall the campaign has been really fun to play so far and I'm very very impressed by the quality of every part of it. Well done