Yes.

About the manoever drives, there is no related research to improve them. And the available slots are very rare, to spend one for extra tacticle movement hurts, but I will try it.

You assume misunderstood the original question.

The problem is the slow Terran Heavy Cruiser(7) in Front of the faster other Cruisers(12).
There are two possible ways to mitigate this.
1. At combat start the player can place his ships in his starting zone as he wishs.
2. Automatic placement, but a ...

Hi,
some thoughts and sugesstions from the last days playing that would improve this great game further:

Research:
R eplacement of the research Checkbox List with a 'civilization' tech tree. (I found it really hard to find a viable research strategy because I did not see the whole picture)
M ...