I find the biggest problem is you can't find your units that get lost or shot down during combat.
For instance, you get into battle and your fighter gets shot down - theres no actual way to differentiate between the colors or even track your lost pilots, you literally end up scavenging all the crappy circular artifacts - which gets very annoying. (Maybe they need an option to select what you want to grab, and preferably have it auto grab whilst the flight is in motion (an option)).
The first time I passed the game, I ended up literally killing every planet's orbital structures and every pirate and MSF around, because at some point in time they get way too easy with the 1600dmg, 12speed pegasus.
Certain missions were WAY too hard and it doesn't help when the background of the sky is repeated over and over...I was hoping for a dynamic scenery for space, not some image they stretched using 3D studio max or whatever else was used.
There were lots of issues however I found the game ended way too quickly just as you got a ship... there was no room for enjoying the new ships with the added technology. Also they needed to make the FTU show fixed items and not have it show you forty-fifty others if you redock. Maybe even have sectors where you can buy good items for all I saw were weak ones.
This game had the potential to be the best space RPG if there were a few modifications to fix certain aspects to it.(Next time change the color of items and pods in space so you know what's being scavenged, maybe even stick a mini radar (tv) screen)
Having the ability to track objects in space should be an option, rather than flying blindly in space hoping to find combat.
I would love to see not one or two but dozens, maybe even an entire clan showing up through the gates of a system at random intervals, also dependent on a real time scale, just like in Flight sims you have an entire battle that unfolds in real time, units being produced from different shipyards or hangars travel freely in the space hopefully with ALOT more activity.
Great game as always, hopefully you guys can recommend more like this to me.
Hopefully we can expect to see a Star Wolves 4, I am looking forward to it personally, will definitely buy and pre-order it.