🚀 go-pugleaf

> I got creamed.

I just went back to ufo & got creamed.  I think there's a slightly
different style of play.
 
> It seems to me like the game moves much too fast, and the more dangerous
> aliens start arriving much earlier in the game

I'm not sure, but I think the better you do, the harder they hit you. 
No way to prove it tho.

> I don't seem to have enough
> time to research anything, and pretty much I bite the big one 


I research sonic rifles asap, then sonic pulsers. this combo will take
out just about anything & isn't as heavy as the cannon.
gauss sucks except the sub weapon, which is a profit item.

Then go for the armor.  

> ... or if i just suck 

depends on what you mean...;D