Sounds very similar to Endless Sky[1] - another open source game drawing on the old Escape Velocity games. I really enjoyed both Endless Sky and the Escape Velocity games, so I'll have to check out Naev at some point! [1] https://endless-sky.github.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

#2 - Endless Sky - ALSO inspired by Escape Velocity, but IMO this is more polished Escape Velocity clone and could reasonably be called the modern successor. EXCELLENT space trade/piracy/combat and definitely take some good strategy to get far into the game. Source: 11 months ago

Bottom left of the website has discord invite link https://endless-sky.github.io. Source: 12 months ago

I would love to see blueprints of some of the ships in endless sky. Source: about 1 year ago

I used to love tactical RPGs, but as I've aged I don't have the patience for them. I really wanted to play Battle of Wesnoth (https://www.wesnoth.org/), but it was not to be. Then I found this gem and it scratched my space sim itch, https://endless-sky.github.io/. Source: about 1 year ago

You can give it a try via the link below, and feel free to let us know any of your thoughts about it: Https://warclicks.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

Closest thing I can think of is https://warclicks.com/ .... That might be able to scratch your itch, even if it isn't perfect. Source: about 2 years ago

Other games have a second layer of prestige, but one of the factors for how the second prestige points are calculated or the requirement to do the second layer of prestige is based on how many times it has been done before, so doing it before intended too many times will halt progress, and delaying it longer than expected will result in faster and faster progress (games I can think of are War Clicks, Idle Space... Source: about 3 years ago