This is irritating. You have an ally join a battle and suddenly odd deployment. Ships lost for no good reason. Flat deployment lines would solve the issue. Stick the ally on one end. If the ally has a lot of ships, have multiple lines.

Or combine the two allied fleets and do the no curve, usual deployment.

Might be interesting if we had a formation choice before battle. battle lines/curve/triangle/diamond/multiple diamonds.

I'd settle for deployments that didn't put transports in front of dedicated combat vessels.

Transports always in the back would be great!

That carrier has the most shields and point defense. Why is he so far back? I use him to pick off incoming missiles.