1) The movement of enemy ships is just... odd. Especially the highly maneuverable ones like the Dralthi, Demon, and Talon. They move like they don't have any inertia at all. They zoom off in random directions during combat as though they had unidirectional engines. While this does make the dogfights more challenging, it also makes the autotrackers almost mandatory for survival. The autotrackers would not be so needed if the ships could only accelerate in the direction that they are pointing. And it would give a much more realistic feel to the combat as well.
2) I shouldn't be able to hear sound effects (aka, missile firings) from so far away. Especially when the other ships are too far away to appear on my radar. I think the volume of the sound effects should be more tightly correlated with the distance from the object.
3) Why does my turret talk to me? It always says, "welcome to the happy hunting grounds" at strange moments. Is there supposed to be another person in the turret talking to me?
4) I guess this is just a WC thing, but why can't I use my radar on ships that are behind me?
5) Why do Confed patrols always ask me to maintain my current heading and speed for a search when I'm in a dogfight or in the middle of an asteroid field? Can't they see that I'm being ambushed by Kilrathi and come to my aid rather than trying to search my vessel? And sometimes when this happens, there aren't any Confed ships visible on radar!
6) It would be nice if your character developed some kind of a reputation beyond what's already included in the game. I mean, if you've wasted hundreds of Kilrathi / Retros /Pirates / etc., and you encounter a lone ship from one of these factions, shouldn't they think twice about attacking you? It would improve the flow of the game, IMO, if you didn't get jumped by 1-2 ships at each nav point and instead had to face less frequent but more organized attempts on your life from enemy factions.
7) Campaign missions should pay a lot more! If your character is really out to make money, why should he take these very dangerous and difficult campaign missions when he can make 3x as much from any random cargo run in the mission computer? In fact, I had to spend a little time here in the forums to find out how to actually find the campaign. I came across whats-her-name in the bar, and she told me that I had to abandon my ship! Why would I take that chance for only 10k credits?
Kilrathi presence in the Perry system should provoke some kind of Confed response!9) NPCs should flee far more often than they do. If you are a pirate, and you attacked a cargo ship that started kicking your butt, would you hang around to get destroyed? No, you'd run away and pick a softer target.
10) The campaign missions really don't make much sense, if you think about it. You get an artifact which makes you curious. You find out that it's priceless, yet you can't ever sell it! Why even hold onto it? In the mean time, you find an enemy gun out in wild space, which causes a funky drone to follow you around. The drone can't be killed, unless an ancient alien civilazation reappears to "boost" the gun. Hmm... I hope they don't make a movie out of this!
11) The dialog in the fight with the drone scrolls by way too fast to read.
12) It would be nice to have some additional communication options. For instance, it would be nice to be able to request aid from friendly ships. Similarly, when you try to help Confeds kill a Dralthi, it would be nice if you could ask them to disengage so that you can kill it without accidentally detroying any of their ships. Earning the Confed medal in the first campaign should give you some street cred with the Confed pilots.
13) It would be really cool if your character could talk back to the bartenders. Especially when they give you outdated information. Your character could tell them, "well, actually the Palan blockade was broken..."
14) It would be really super cool if, say, the Confeds paid a bounty on any Kilrathi ship. After killing one, you could tracter in a bit of debris and then get paid for it at Perry Naval base. The same could be true for pirates, Kilrathi, etc.
That's all I can think of right now. I'm really enjoying the game, by the way. I don't mean these as harsh criticisms at all. I just think that, as good as it is, it could be better. There's always GG for the purists out there.
I mean, Mr Rear Gunner, I don't want to know about it, that's YOUR job mate! But otherwise I think it is cool to know I've a teammate on my ship.
