I played a lot of SFB back in the 80s. the base game was fine but as more and more expansions came out, the complexity ramped up to the point where it was no longer fun to play. I remember attending a con in Spokane, WA and signing up for a game of SFB. They were using a bunch of expansions and the people who organized it thought it would be a good idea to give every player a ship whose main weapons were drone racks. Having to track and move 30+ drones plus everyone's ships, plus all the anti-drone drones over 32 sub phases was ridiculous. I recall firing all my weapons early in a turn and, as I was going speed zero, there was nothing left for me to do. I left, had lunch, sat down and watched a bit of another game being played, and game back. They were still only about 2/3rds of the way through the same turn. I think that was when I stopped playing SFB and sold my copy.