Thanks! Actually, the number lists both count as one word each. I spent a fair amount of energy trying to get the most out of my 200 words :)
You're right, leveling would have been nice to have something about, though it's fairly easy to make up your own rules about that (e.g. after a mission gain 1 in two skills or something) compared to the other stuff which I think is more unique.
Could you clarify what you mean by "point values"?
That word counter is very sneaky! Haha! So, point values on what it costs to level up skills and attributes. 5, 10, 50, 100 points per level of statistic? And then point values of creatures fought; maybe their total attribute value, or the number of successes above 0? Just these two things could give a full system to allow stronger and stronger characters that would eventually break through the alien technology and blast them off their Dyson Sphere.
But just getting a bonus in one or two skills would be nice, depending on if that skill was even used. Again, all sorts of ways to use this system and add-ons to create for it.
