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The point i think he's making is that once you get past the inital 'rubbish ship', 'low ranking', 'can't do or buy anything' stages then the game ceases to be challengeing unless you purposefully handicap yourself. You progressively get tougher and tougher but the opposition doesn't. Thus the longer you play the easier it get's. That's the exact opposite of the usual difficulty change for a game and does mean that later on boredom becomes a serious possibility.