1: an option to make aircraft launched their own formation. currently if you launch one. or multiple aircraft you have to wait for them all to be airborne and add them to a new formation one by one.
2: when creating scenarios, if you don't create a route for npc ships they just take off on whatever heading is left in during the scenario creation, even if that means sailing through land. maybe the mission selection has things like grid patrols or active asm that will decide their own headings making engagements feel less like canned hunts.
3:make the encyclopedia more dynamic. the lesser suggestion is to be able to decide where you deploy. the greater is to add both military and civilian npcs to the map. i acknowledge without planned routes they will need their own collision avoidance system which will be easier said than done. the ability to spawn multiple assets would be great too. the combination of both points would create a sandbox to experiment with both formation arrangements as well as individual ship functions.