I've mostly really enjoyed this game, and I'm glad I've spent as much time as I have in it so far. However, there are a couple of things which bother me.

The most annoying thing I've experienced in the Hard and Extreme difficulties is that allied and neutral ships keep destroying the ships I'm capturing. There's really little more annoying (in this game) than spending a lot of minutes, ammo, and soldiers trying to capture a high-powered ship to have some neutral ship suddenly appear nearby and blow it up just before I take it. I really hate that.

It'd be awesome if there was an ability the player could use to tell other ships to stop attacking my target.

Making that an ability players have to use rather than it just happening by default like in Normal and lower difficulties keeps the tone that these are more difficult settings without the nonsense of allies blowing up my stuff.