A few things I have learned..

[DeadZone]

As for the timer thing for missions expiring
If you notice it does say something like enemy might be destroyed by [%stardate]

[ColdSteel]

DeadZone,

Yes, I know. It shows in the mission log, that's not the problem. The problem is waching the time count down while I'm fruitlessly hunting for pirate X in system Y. It's like hunting for a needle in a haystack. They either need to extend the mission time limits or make the ships easier to see at a distance, I think.

Overall, I'm not sure what purpose having only 90 days to kill ship X serves. You'd think they'd be happy to have them eliminated even if it took a year or more to do so. Look at how long it's taking us to find Bin Laden and Saddam. Maybe we should tell our military, "find 'em and take 'em out in 90 days or we'll dock your pay $4,000".

-ColdSteel

[Wydraz]

LOL

[Captain Kwok]

Long range sensors help in finding ships by extending your detection range on the map of other ships - making it easier to detect those lone ships hiding in the corners of systems etc.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i've only seen long range senser's once, but i havn't looked much. there really isn't much room on the ship if your trying for a big, bruiser ship.

[DeadZone]

Yeah thats one thing I have noticed and that is you cant really fit your ship with alot of stuff

Wot I think should be done that all components are small (ie. 5-10k) but higher lvls of the same compenent gets abit bigger by about 5-10k that way you can fit your ship with wot u need but you are limited by wot lvl you can have wit your hull size as in reality how it stands is that a high lvl destroyer can take out 3 low lvl battlecruisers, and I have done this (I was bored so I picked on a terran fleet ) this idea prevents such a thing happening (as I dont think it would happen if we were really flying around in spaceships) and would make the game a hell of a lot more challenging
Wot all your thoughts on this

[Wydraz]

Hmm, I like it!