Also, is it at all possible to have that one starting heavy cruiser come with a particularly badass name or is that an engine limitation? Because boy howdy did I want to name it the Hammer of Justice after it took out those slavers in that game.

Giving players the ability to rename individual ...

I definitely think the humans need some sort of advantage.

Right now, the human's really have 2 significant advantages, which might arguably offset their otherwise terrible starting position.

The first is their starting heavy cruiser. It's sometimes enough to clear a fairly nice system -- or ...

Regarding the Neutrino Scanner/Tachyon Scanner confusion:

What if you just swap their positions in the tech tree? Neutrino Scanners are the tier 1 tech, replaced with superior Tachyon Scanners as you get more advanced.

Please make it easier to queue up technologies for research; it's the one problem I have with your otherwise excellent UI. I appreciate the hyperlinks in the tech tree, but didn't intuit that you needed to use the hyperlinks to queue research goals until late in my most recent game.

Currently ...

Very strange bug where the game forced me to build a tank battalion immediately after colonizing a planet, and also claimed that I had not picked anything to build there, even though it was building the tanks and I have queued a factory after it.

Playing as Gremak early game, build r14675 ...