So seeing how everyone has either forgotten or been waiting patiently for an update to this, I have plans to make the next update more of a total rewrite, a v2.0. It will break things but will fix others.

Anyone objecting to a complete redo with almost all blocks changed and possibly some modded ai mechanics? It will probably break some saves but at the cost of things like:
-Many new custom shapes and hull pieces
-Powered armor with impact damage and rapid regen
-Heavy artillery capable of saturating large swaths of space in hot death (with upgrade mods)
-Multiple drone types like short range damage sponges, long range sniper bots and point defense drones
-Improved healing drones that orbit the ship and factories that provide a large initial boost to construction.
-All shields buffed in size power and price, with the top tier covering whole fleets
-A veritable zoo of weapon systems
-Carefully reconsidered balance