After almost 300+ hours of game play here are a few questions and observations I have :
In the game we have S/M or L or XL MAINTENANCE modules and also the S/M or L or XL SHIP FAB modules. The question is, does the SHIP FAB also REP combining both ? Making the MAINTENANCE one obsolete. Answer is SHIP FAB also serve as REPAIR. I have decided to go against the TELADI and capture their systems, it worked fine until I realize how harassing is the Micro management to spot their new Defense stations they are trying to rebuild. Of course I try to kill them as fast as I can but those stations being under constructions, they are UNKILLIBLE. They also hire third party builders from other races to build it which is very annoying. An other issue is the lack of control we have at camping a gate. Despite I have 50 M ships and 10 L ships on the gate with a defense platform right in from of the gate with many bridges and disks, the enemy can pass trough very relax and go build their stations in my sector. PLEASE fix the station under construction being eternal and never killable. Teladi has like 50 Defense Stations unfinished under attack by the Xenon. They are luring my traders to deliver goods and being ganked on sight by Xenon. Their should be a time out of unfinished modules or just making it target-able and being destroyed when reaching zero HP. The SCA is of course a problem as we are locked at -5 and we can never be friend or enemy with them, making it very difficult to control our empire and their raid on us once again. An other issue is when you have a very large complex station with a repair facility or war or shipyard, many resources for sale are not anymore sold by the manager. I have like 40 Smartship factories and I want to sell them, but because my station has a Shipyard and a warf, the manager is not selling those resources anymore. Despite it is SELL with AUTO PRICING and NOT restricted to other races. Combat is very awkward, especially in the system. You can easily lose a lot of ships fighting a station. When you do the fight OOS it suddenly become much more smooth. Lack of tracking of the turrets especially when the ship itself firing is moving, it seems the game is NOT tacking into consideration the momentum of the ship. This is particularly observable when you have a destroyer in plasma turrets attacking a station. While the ship is moving it is totally missing the station FIX TARGET. The AI is extremly stupid, for example when you ask your ships to attack a moving target, they will go initially where the target was before chasing it. So they NEVER catch it. Travelmode is a bit annoying in combat as it is hard to intercept a ship to destroy it. I think after a ship pass trough a gate or accelerator, it should arrive in the new system at a speed of ZERO and not full travel speed allowing it to pass trough a blockade or ambush with ease at the speed of light. The zoom on the map is very tricky for station build on the Y axis very deep or very high. It is a good zoom for 2D but not for the 3D map.Same issue when building factories. It is very hard to put the camera at the bottom of the building area and rotate it to see what we are doing. This has to be redesigned.
Lack of ability to give an order to a ship to fly to a point of the map on the Y axis. You can give 2D orders but not high or low on the map. It is very annoying especially to spot some Xenon stations build more then 50 km away from the 2D axis. You have to manually go in the ship and fly it up or down. Radar coverage is always 40 km... I think capital ships deserve more then that. Auto traders have an issue, if they take a full load and fly t a station to sell it, and suddenly the station got this order fulfilled by someone else or if they do not buy anymore for what ever reason it is, the trader ship will be stuck in space turning on itself at the same place unable to get out of this logic and never trying to find an other station to sell this load. The walk around of this is to drop all the cargo of this ship and then it will restart to work properly. But please I do not want to monitor all my traders like that!!! FIXED in 2.20 We want more control over the BUY and SELL of stations. I want to be able to remove the SELL or BUY from a product. If I have a full production line to claytronics for example, I do not want to sell or buy the intermediate product, so I want to be able to fine tune this more precisely. I know for now people put restrict trade to other races and they put manually SELL at max price and BUY at min price, but this is NOT a satisfactory solution on the long term. As well as the shipyard and wharf, I want to be able to select the races I allow to buy from me. Also it would be great to have an option at shipyard and wharf like, if all materials above 75% (a selected percentage by the player), other factions can buy from me. It would be great to be able to rotate the station parts not only horizontally be also vertically or able to mirror them. SETA is totally useless end game. 2 ships cannot even fight each others during SETA because they always miss the shot. Flight path, AI path, and calculations are very bad during SETA making it almost not usable. I want all my ships t have their turrets set to ATTACK ALL ENEMIES. Now I have to select every ship one by one to do so... I need this in global settings. I want my stations to shoot at any enemy in range of the guns / laser / ... but I cannot control that. The station will only engage if it is attacked. This makes the defence platform near gates obsolete. THIS SHOULD BE RESOLVED ASAP. We need a turret control like for ships on stations. I have helped HOP to claim both sectors of Faulty Logic, but they just build some defense station and never really bring their economy in those systems. Why are they not expanding there ? When your assigned traders to a station go somewhere and sell their goods. Upon completion of the trade they will stay outside of the station they just trade with instead of flying back to the main station they are assigned to. I want to be able to control the SELL and BUY and MINING range of the assigned ships to a station. Currently this option is grayed and defaulted to 3 to 5 jumps automatically. More to be added while I recall the issue and with the development of this topic.Have a nice game everyone.