Question: What are some good strategies for fleet combat? Are there differences in weapon damage based on the ship or if their shields are down or not? For example, are laser weapons really good against shields but poor against damaging the hull? I don't remember hearing anything about that in the tutorials.

Bug: When I play as the TEC (don't know if it does this for other races or not) and create a fleet with light frigates and other units and jump them into another system, they usually engage correctly but sometimes the light frigates move immediately to the edge of the gravity well and just sit there. This is when the unit formation is on standard too...
Also, sometimes fleets (friendly or hostile) will attack a ship but that ship will be moving around the gravity well (like a trade ship) so they get totally decimated by actual enemy ships near them along the way. Maybe if they re-evaluated their position more frequently in order to pick targets closer to them?

Suggestion: When moving fleets across to another gravity well, it would be nice to select where they go in the remote gravity well. Right now they jump in and stick around the edge of the well but if you could click near the planet and have the move arrows show up there as an indicator that would be nice. Also, is there a way to move ships but also select which way they face when they get there? Usually, it's like a click and hold and then drag or something. I couldn't figure out if this was in the game or not...