… In the next months there will be new updates arriving to Spacelords, so we hope you guys like what we are preparing here at MSE. …

Of course you are constantly developing the game and that's all well and good, but you do not share your thoughts with the community. Nobody, none of the community knows which direction is being developed further.

Yes there is a roadmap, but there was never any mention of e.g. new aleph drops, sudden death timers, limiting ammo and so on (these things are not just small patches). So, you don't have to wonder, if most players are getting upset when you implement such features nobody wanted or asked for (e.g. ALEPH DROPS!!!).

Considering the last few updates, I don't know if I should be happy, or if I should be afraid about the next updates. I hope for the best, and thanks for the reply, Karen.

… but I REALLY question that they even play their own game sometim...no, ALOT of the times with some of the boneheaded decisions and (VERY) late fixes to old problems they've made …

… regardless I still love the game quite a bit, but tweaks REALLY need to be made if they want more players.

I can only agree, but all this has been discussed/adressed hundreds of times since 2017 here in the forums.

It seems like MSE does not want to win new players for Spacelords. Otherwise, new game modes or optional game modes would have come first in the development! And everything else would come afterwards. What good is a radar, cosmetic melee weapons UI changes or whatever when I lose most of the new players in a forced PVP situation (where they permanetly get stomped into the ground by a high level antag)?
There's not even a tutorial anymore and the solo/training mode is locked (!!!) at the beginning of the game!
And no, if I want to play a video game, then I don't want to watch any tutorial videos or read tons of text - I don't want to do that, I want to PLAY the game. Give the player a playable tutorial!!!

Well, the price policy with some skins I can not understand either. For example, Lycus "Mars Mercenary" costs 250 and Doldrens "La Parca" costs 700? The changes are almost identical, a new jacket, cigar, sunglasses and new colors for Lycus and a new jacket, new sleeve protector and necklace for Doldren. But the price difference is 450 points!?

Well, I could go on and on and on, but I don't want to anymore, because I think everything was said a thousand times in terms of new/ optional game modes, Price policy, etc. etc. And I've long since given up my hopes.

… I see the game as Mercurysteam's baby, the game they wanted to make for a long time, at it has been shown when they've taken care of it and improved it through the difficulties and lack of players, instead of abandoning it and trying something else …

I may well presuppose that, as a paying customer! Since I may well expect a reasonable product in return, right?
MercurySteam did not give me "Raiders of the Broken Planet" for free, you know!? But I think I got enough fun for my money back then.

Now it's free - now MSE can do whatever they want, for the better or worse. Nowadays more for the worse, sadly.

Oh, I know the feeling, getting grabbed while you're punching the enemy! This is sooo motivating, right?

Indeed, you can even remove the optional week at all and add some missions antag free every day, changing these mission each day...

So basically that would be an optional Antag mode, only with limited missions.

Good times for Raiders, because (most likely) the majority of players would want to play these Antag free missions, and that would also make the matchmaking faster (for these missions). But, well bad times for Antags and the matchmaking for the rest of the "normal" missions, that's why MSE doesn't want an optional antag mode, because that would totally split the already small community of players.

Same issue, I can’t change anything on anyone’s loadout or I get stuck on “Awaiting response from MecurySteam servers?” and have to force quit to get out of it.

Same issue, this is still broken. I mean, I can play the missions, but I can't change enything on the characters (e.g. cards).
Anyway shuffling cards is only expensive and usually inefficient. So, it's not that bad for me. Take the time you need. And take yourself even more time and revise the card system in general. 

In fact, they became cheaper with the Identity Shop Update, before the 2nd loadout cost 250 points and the 3rd loadout cost 500 points.