SE3 vs SE4, yes, some things got fubar

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Hey all.
Just got the SE4 demo today and played my first 100 turn game.
I have a few things I've noticed:

- First, in tactical combat, you can't band-select ships, which you could do in SE3. In an attack I had upwards of thirty ships and had to order them all individually, that became very tedious and boring.
- Also, the whole wing thing sucks. If you move the wing leader, the other ships stay in formation. Thats great for show, but in a battle it just gets annoying and makes it impossible to maneuver.
- The next thing I noticed was that my station
{as follows:
Space Station (500kt)
5 Large Meson BLasters L2
4 Large APBeams L2
3 Shild Gens L2 (120 shields)}
lost to a single enemy light cruiser with NO shields. The station didn't lose because of range, i checked it in tactical like 8 times and the nme ship was in range of my guns every time.
So WTF is going on with the shields?
- Also, i noticed that in some cases, the enemy ships weapons ignored my shields, but they weren't phased weapons (plasma charge and that crazy acid globule thing)
- Finally, a couple times, i noticed that after I won a battle vs an unarmed colony or colony ship, one of my ships was critically damaged. How the hell did that happen? (Wasnt a self-destruct, i checked for that)

- Aside from bugs, i have some other falicies to inspect:

- The galaxy window pales in comparison to the SE3 one. I loved the way it made the circle multi-colored when diff empires were in one sector. And the sector display options were also very nice (ally, resupply, occupation, etc)
- The fleet system also is not nearly as good as the SE3 one in my opinion. The ships should be able to be in different sectors, and do different things independant of the rest of the fleet. I also think that the more ships are in a fleet, the less supplies each individual ship should use. (this may be in already, im not sure, ive only played one game)
- Thats all I can remember, but otherwise the game is great. I just want to be able to go past ten years, you cant do jack except maybe get intoa few small skirmishes. Hell I couldnt even finish the one major conflict I got into and I really wanted to dust the bums.