Some suggestions, probably some repeats in here from others suggestions and stuff you already intended to do but haven't had time for yet.

Ship Design:
Put color flags on the modules so it's clear what slots they can go in. So a point-defense module has orange, white, (color for heavy that I ...

Encountered a few oddities that are possibly known, but I'm new to this so please be patient.

1) I bombed a colony and then sent a colony ship there. It had 2 level 2 factories and 1 level 2 lab. However, it only gave 8 production and 4 research when I thought that should be 20 production and 10 ...

Hello, another long time 4x player here. Started with Civ on my brother's Amiga on Settler difficulty and I barely won. As it turns out I was initially pretty terrible at 4x but I've been playing them for 25 years now so I'd like to think I've moved up to tolerable. These days I've got a family with ...