Interesting update, in brief:
1. Faction mission loyalty is great. Rather than have a minimum loyalty of 10 to take on missions, simply make 0-10 not pay anything but gain loyalty. You are "proving yourself." this eliminates grief and grind in event that starting faction is offering no bounties, no trade runs, nothing that could possibly boost your loyalty. Tri-tachyon took 20 minutes to generate enough stuff to gain 10 loyalty.
2. Check pricing in regards to stations accurately updating based on stability, as well as crew casualty numbers, seems a little bugged in its readout.
3. You need an option to eliminate large ship explosion lense flare in the settings, or tune it down like 90% (acctually 99%). It's unbelievably bad and annoying. It's really, really terrible. If this were a AAA game your legal department would be sending you an order to eliminate it for medical health reasons. Almost makes the game unplayable. This is not Star Trek and you are not JJ Abrams. Please drop everything and do this and release it in 7.2. If it's too complicated just copy and paste the code from SS+
thanks,
edit: oh hai i found the setting that allows you to change that in the data files. still, my point stands in how bad it is, should consider bringing the turn off function to the main settings
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actually just get rid of it, or turn it off by default, so bad