After playing a little with the tutorial, I realized that I need the option to invert the horizontal rotation, I would like to be able to pan the camera with the middle mouse button and it would be nice if the camera would follow the centered ship while moving.

More later...

On the rotating thing, I don't really like the over-smoothness of it. When you release, it keep coasting on a bit long (yes i whine)

Also, when zooming in/out, the camera zooms to where the mouse is at that moment, so when you zoom, then coast, it keep following the mouse, which i find annoying. (again, opinion)

seconded on the reversing rotation thing.

I found it rather hard to tell if you have a capital ship selected. Frigates have a circle when selected, but capships have no way to tell wether you've selected them or not.

And, last point for now, It would be nice to have some kind of ETA for spooling up the jump drives and transit.

Capitalships should have a circle as well unless you can see the mesh. If you have a the mesh of anything visible and it is selected, the players owner icon will appear above it to indicate selection.

Basically, if the object is in icon form selection is a white circle, otherwise it is a player ownership icon above the mesh.

Is there anyway to change where the ships go after they leave the construction station? They seem to always fly to the center planet or asteroid.

You can set a rallypoint to wherever you like. Click on the planet, then look at the actiongrid on your bottom right. Click the yellow "Set Rally Point" button. Select any point within the gravity well and your ships will assemble there. This simple action can have serious consequences in a game

Thanks alot for the quick reply, you guys seem to have done an amazing job so far out of release. Cant stop playing, will be back with more suggestions in alittle.

The caption is actually set to the player's name. The tutorial default is 'Recruit'.

Looks like you're missing the font the game uses for some reason.

been playing the beta now for a bit runs great and no problems my only complaint is that it seems strange that ships can jump through the gravity wells. What i mean is that when ships want to jump to another planet instead of moving to the edge closes to the planet it is jumping to it moves to the closest edge to the ship which could be facing in the opposite direction of the planet meaning the ship jumps through the gravity well. I found this annoying because the Ai would jump to a well defended planet and instead of having to get through my defences like i thought they simply jumped in and moved bak a few inches and jumped again towards the next planet without having to touch my defences is it possible that this will be changed

I had a small issue relating to the AI that I just wished to bring up. An AI in a neighboring planet apparently wanted to explore the planets beyond the bottleneck created by my planet, so he would send scout frigates to explore those planets.

The problem with this is that I had built defenses right at the jump point were his scouts would appear and then jump away from. His ships never made it through, so he sent a constant stream of them trying to get past. It cost him a pretty penny and annoyed me with the approaching fleet message spam. Later, perhaps as a result of the wasted ships, he was behind me in terms of capital ships and tech and I just ate him up.

I don't know how it would be fixed, but it would be nice if the AI realized the futility of its actions and stopped wasting both our times. Even just sending the scout ships as a group instead of one by one as they were manufactured would have helped.

Poor little squads all left to die...

I also do not like "jumping through gravity wells".

edit: I also would like mouse control (camera) options. Specifically mouse rotation speeds, inverting horizontal/vertical rotations (seperate of course), and turning on/off "smooth" rotation (when the camera continues to rotate after letting go).