It's possible that I misinterpreted the game's UI on the "number keys to talk to someone multiple times". If someone's decided they're done talking to the squad, a tooltip on mousing over them says as much. I didn't mouse over the first few times and that may have been why I got confused.
Anyway, thanks for working on this version. Having played it for a bit, I prefer this to the text-based version by a long shot. Though I still don't know what strategies I can employ to actually succeed or even survive. I'll let you know if I find any other obvious bugs.