I have to agree that some of these issues are a little sore, but I think speed of the cannon projectiles needs improved the most. by the time the shots got to the planet I was attacking, it came just in time to nuke my new planet of life.  

The novalith is easily the best superweapon - it does (if I'm not mistaken) 2500 damage to a planet so 3 hits will destroy any planet no matter what (well a fellow TEC can have a shield I guess). If the novalith gets upgraded the other 2 will need HUGE upgrades to make up for it, and then it will just turn into a rush to see who can get the superweapon first.

Ships are fairly well balanced as it is. The 'little' frigates are actually pretty big ships, having hundreds of crewmembers so they are well protected. If capitals and cruisers could blast apart frigates in a few hits (and HC already DO blast apart frigates pretty quickly) there would be no point in building them - just stick with the capital and hard tech to HC.

Even on planets with porous cores (smaller gravwell) planets are not in range of bombardment. Furthermore, the only ships that can bomb are special frigates which are both expensive, use a huge amount of popcap, and are made of tissue paper or capitals which are expensive and don't do massive amounts of bombing damage. A fully fortified planet can withstand quite a pounding, plenty of time to chase off or destroy the attackers.

Targeting hardpoints and such is an interesting idea, but I think something like that would have to wait till sins2 rather then an expansion. It's not a bad idea though.

More specific commands would be nice, I agree with you 100% on this. Being able to command my hoshikos to only heal my capital for instance would be great. As for dodging missiles, as far as I know all weapons have a 100% hitrate (except vs fighters/bombers) so missiles can't be dodged. I guess a 'defensive mode' where you took less damage or weapons had a chance to miss or something but you could not shoot back would be interesting.

More ships would always be welcome, of course. Depending on how the story goes, it would make alot of sense for the TEC to have more dedicated warships now that they have been fighting for a while.

I'm pretty sure that Novaliths do 3000 damage. And the way to use them is to have multiple targeting an upgraded planet, as the recharge time will let the planet heal up if you use one. Except for the lower health asteroids.

I'd like somewhat more powerful Cruisers and a lot more powerful Capitals, myself.

I find Bombardment to be fine. You need a lot of ships or a lot of time to take a fully upgraded planet.

Dunno about hardpoints or commands. It could just end up adding a lot of micro.

Always more ships. The more the merrier.

I think that the Real Capital Ships mod or whatever its called actually is much more along the lines of what a capital ship should be, no more powerful then the unmodded version but its twice as durable and also costs quite a lot more.

I do play without the mods once in a while and sorta feel that Cap ships seem too cheap and flimsy until leveled up.

I think this game just lacks a little here in and not much.

Like the ability to shoot and move for one. The ships are pretty much sitting ducks. In normal battles ships whould take evasive actions and such or better yet add a combat style where they focus on attack, defense, or evasision or something.

Better fleet formations cause the ones we have now suck it seems loose and standard are example the same as standard and tight. and when they are in formation it seems like they rarely fight in it cause they all rush of to chase ships instead of staying in the pattern. the fleet is only a fast as the slowest ship is what my grandad says.

stop that annoying thing where your ships don't jump properly but spin around in circles and move between the outer rim and inner rim of the grav well before jumping when in fleets cause they are just gonna reform fleet again after the jump to the next grav well.

Well better planetary defense like a flak platform or battle station.

Of course more ships. I think there should be more ship abilities like overcharging your weapons or something.

Also this is a HUGE thing there needs to be a Clear and Cut CLASS system. Trying to fight ships is like huge guess work when you really can't tell what class your are fighting against and whats effective. it seems like every vasari ship is a medium, all tec ships are light and every advent ship is heavy.

General Harada, you can already queue commands. To do what you're asking, turn on stacking in the empire tree, then shift right click the groups you want to attack. By default, the ships will auto target whatever their weapons are most effective against.