2) Freighter transport is MUCH better.
3) Refueling bases is also much better. (Though I have noticed that one of my bases got interrupted in its refueling cycle, maybe from ending a session while fueling was in progess, where it had several hundred units of fuel in its cargo but stopped filling its fuel cell storage just over half way. It never resumed fueling... Not a big issue just commenting that this can happen, and only seen it once thus far.)
4) I've been experiencing some issues when giving refuel orders. Several times I have ordered a ship/fleet to refuel and it accepts the order and proceeds to the fuel station. However when emerging from hyperspace the refueling order is cancelled. Checking the base reveals that all of the fuel is currently reserved (and hence a refueling order cannot be issued). Going back to an earlier save shows that fuel was intially reserved for these ships when the refuel order was given. (So somehow in the meantime fuel which was already reserved got reserved by another ship?)
5) Often when conquering independents a lot of their fuel cargo is already reserved. (e.g. 2955 out of 3000 units reserved). While this is probably WAD it can be very frustrating as fuel problems ensue at the colony for some years.
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]7) I am experiencing frustrations with ships wanting to flee if a component is damaged. The scenario usually arises for me in the early game when I have some ships which have sustained some armour damage from monsters that I send to take down a pirate base. They attack and very soon afterwards decide to flee (escape can be cancelled and attack reordered but you have to do this repeatedly). The ships in question have lots of shields left 80-90% and will do this even as the pirate base is about to blow. I understand the reason for wanting ships engaged in combat to automatically disengage when damaged but in this case (which happens every game I play) there is no danger. Could we perhaps have an option to ignore damage in the attack order? (An option which only applies to the ships it is given to and not all ships or all ships of a given design.)
8) I'm having LOTS of fun.
