To provide context - I contacted the devs directly, so that I could determine if harrying them about movement refinement wa a productive course. If they'd made a choice already not to go that way, I didn't want to be a nuisance.
I love graceful, shiny, polished AI behavior, which is why movement here tweaks me so much. (Some of my favorite games are those that allow you to give simple orders to your units, resulting in complex or intelligent behavior that needs no micromanagement. - for instance the space sims that allow you to simply indicate to irbit the target at X distance.) But given their timetables, and a direct question about how to prioritize those refinements, I responded as above.
Back to the PC updates - I noticed that the Celestials carry a lot more death rays into battle - even in the first map! Ow! This makes Celestials much less desirable as a starting opponent. Still didn't have much problems, but then, I handle death rays carefully, and with extreme prejudice. And they're not so common as trolgars packing missiles.
Still, celestials are far too repair/energizer heavy. Is it possible to limit enemy equips to one repair beam/shield energizer per ship? It's frustrating in the early game to come up against a ship with a shield energizer, two repair beams, and a tractor beam, and not yet be well armed enough to take them down, despite being able to shoot them at standoff distance forever.
