Please post here all ideas for ships, battles and/or weapons.

You should be able to select 'phasers only' if facing a weak opponent and don't want to waste torpedoes.

Hospital ships
After your Hospital ship has cured your people of the phage, it can be used to help improve relations with minor races, send it into orbit and it stays there a set number of turns, thus the minors attitude towards you goes up a few points.

I guess this goes here:
what happens when you have a non-hostile agreement with another race and your ships are in their space?
is it just left up to you to remove them (or do they automatically move back to a member system in one turn like in botf1- which i think is a bad idea)
i think that there could be an order -move out of opponents(or some other better word depending on the situation like friend/enemy etc) space. This would choose the shortest route to get out of the opponents space and the ships would not engage things on the way. This could be used to move out the space and the alien race wouldn't complain cause they know you are getting out of their way.