[Will]

Just wanted to note that there was absolutely no need for 5 posts here. Not only could all of them have been put in one post with the appropriate padding (which was also unnecessary, I might add; they aren't any kind of spoilers), but the majority of the forum dwellers here follow the tradition of having their views set "backwards"... meaning your first post is at the bottom of the page for us.

As for the exploits themselves, most gamers would figure out that it is easy to out-think the combat AI and that the Naturally Depressed + Emotionless combo is the way to go if you actually want the Emotionless trait without much thought at all. Neither of them is likely to be "fixed" in a patch; the former because no matter how you slice it, attack ships will need to close into range, and the latter because Aaron has a history of leaving balance issues of that sort to modders. Fighters as troops, most gamers would figure that out as well once they find that they can be used that way. This is more likely to be "fixed", probably in the form of modifying actual ground troops to be able to more easily shoot down fighters.