[Chronon]

One thing I would like to see is the ability to retreat from space combat - especially if your ships are faster. It's frustrating that your three light cruisers cannot escape from a sector when confronted by a fleet of ten dreadnoughts.

I realize this would add a whole level of fleet and ship orders in simultaneous games (always retreat, stand and fight, retreat at 20% losses, etc.), but I think it would alleviate the two fleets enter, one fleet leaves (almost completely intact) aspect of space combat, and make smaller ships more valuable. It would also allow support ships a much greater survival rate.