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There doesn`t seem to be any specific suggestions forum here, so i figured out that the best place to post them might be here.

Sof far a small desire list of mine:

1. in the ships and fleets panels it would be great to have a right-click on ship`s/fleet`s mission to pop-up a mission menu. It is very painful to manually select, go to, right-click on a ship to assign it a specific mission like refuel or retrofit.

2. ships/bases that are under construction should have 'being built' or similar mission type. Once again it is quite difficult to figure out what ship is able to take your orders and what ship is being constructed.

3. resource sensor range. It will be helpful when you need to make a fast-scan of the system planets that are in close proximity to each other.

4. an option to add/remove automation from the whole fleet. Currently if there are ships that are automated they will constantly move out from the fleets position to complete their auto-missions. I had to manually select each such ship and turn off automation.

5. ships auto-refuling as an option. This automation should happen any time a ship is running low on fuel. Perhaps even make it as a part of a design screen in the same way as retreat. Automatically refuel ship when: fuel reserves are at 50%, 25%, never, when in range of ressuply ship etc.

Also trying to retrofit 29 of old ships i had to MANUALLY pick each ship and order it to retrofit. An option to retrofit all ships of the same design class IMHO is a must-have in the game with such scale. Perhaps it even would be better to select multiple design classes (frigates and destroyers for example) and right click on one of them. In the retrofit ships menu there would appear several choises for each design class.

For example: frigate design  -> frigate desing B escort A -> escort B escort A -> escort C etc.

I hope you understood what i meant.

P.S.: i have also noticed that you cannot retrofit a ship to a new design that uses different image than the original ship. Perhaps it is logical enough, but a bit confusing. I had to experiment with different images to finaly figure out why my ships didn`t follow their retrofit orders.