Small Fixes

The point 3 (capital ships need repair more than drones/bombers) is a good one. It's annoying when your fighters are flying past you and your capital ships badly needs a repair. If a drone or bomber dies, it respawns after a few seconds for free, when it gets repaired it costs scrap to do so, I really don't want to waste scrap on near pointless repairs :/

Point 9 is another good point. When the turret keeps turning back and forth while waiting to recharge, it only adds extra time to each cycle, surely it would make sense to stay in the same position it last fired? at least until combat is over.

I would also very much like to be able to see each ship in detail before I choose it. I want to know how many bays it has, and how many point defence slots. Currently, you can only see how many red weapon points it has from the "overview" when choosing your ship.

I'd also like to suggest adding a system to the weapons/loot. Basically, it's much like most MMO games where a weapon can be a standard white item with basic stats, then a green version with slightly better stats, then a blue with yet better stats and finally a super rare yellow version with higher stats again and perhaps some special thing about it (like being able to upgrade one stat one level higher than normally possible, or each shot has a 5% chance to do 25% extra damage). Getting something super rare and awesome is a rewarding feeling

I think and "infinite" mode would be cool too. So you start the universe again but it gets harder on next playthrough, and harder again until eventually it's flat out impossible due to overwhelming numbers.

One more suggestion I have is that when you're in a zone and there are no threats or enemies, that engines, capital ship turn speed, shield repair and hull repair are maybe doubled. It can kind of suck when there's no danger or threat and you just want to move your ship near a station, or repair your ship so you can warp somewhere else. I've thought about this and don't see any way someone could misuse/abuse it, but I might be missing something

Oh, also like 16 and 18 in the post by MrrVlad.