[Instar]

"5) Damage to kill population should be changed from 10 points to 20 points. This will make wiping out planets take a little longer. "
Matter of choice. It used to be that planets were impossibly hard, but now they are middle of the road. I think its fine the way it is.
"6) Different damage points for different target types. An example would be a beam weapon would do say 50 pts damage to a ship,25 points to a planet,and 10 points to a fighter group."
Too much work and micromanagement. You'd have to look up every value and it would be a mess,IMO.
"8) All Anti-matter and Quantum torpedoes need to have a 30 weapon modifier to make it more accurate to make up for it not firing every round and it's size,and not being able to fire on fighters and sats. I exhaustively tested them against other weapon systems to reach the 30 weapon modifier value. There needs to be a small Quantum torpedo in it's tree."
Agree, the quantom torps are weak. Also the small quantom torp is a good idea, I suggested it in the beta forums before, no response.
"10) Shard cannons should fire every round."
Changed for balance reasons, they used to fire once every time, but not anymore. As I said, they were too powerful and changed for balance reasons.
"11) Raising the output levels for Monoliths may be warranted."
They produce each resource, at a pretty good level. Can't be good at everything.
"12) If an engine can store 500 supplies and be an engine and be only 10 kt large why is a supply storage 20 kt in size? Maybe it should hold 1000 supplies or reduced in size to 10 kt. If you change the size to 10 kt the AI ship designs must be changed to utilize the added space that will be available."
Supply storage III does hold 1000 supplies.
"16) Solar Sails should only be able to be used when a ship runs out of fuel. They should be standard tech for all races at all tech levels. Each one in the tree should be larger in size than the one before."
I don't know. Standard for each race? As in given to each race in the beginning?