@Voyager I: Thanks for the feedback, made some notes. Re: officer types, as well.
EDIT: also I will literally never remember to turn my transponder back on when I'm coming back from the black. Is this a problem with other people or am I just an idiot? If it's the former, it might be nice to have the game give you some sort of reminder that you're about to commit a minor crime.
Same here (though in later playtesting, I've gotten into the habit of triple-tapping "1" when I get to a jump-point leading to a populated system - 1 to jump, 2 more to activate the transponder). I have a todo item to add some sort of visual to the transponder being on, perhaps that'll help.
Final thoughts: the background of the REDACTED and their surrounding lore, the overall atmosphere of the game, and Alex's views towards risk vs reward and encouraging the player to make ethically questionable decisions for a quick buck suggests that selling all your AI cores to the Tri-Tachyons is going to prove to be an extremely good idea in future versions of the game and I cannot wait to find out how right I am.
Not sure if this was posted already but there is a minor bug with distress calls:
When you get rescued you have the option of paying for the stuff you get, it was always 20k for me so far. If you select that option you pay 20 (not 20k) and get relation bonuses. That sounds like it can be cheesed really easily.
The flip side is that reacting to distress calls also only pays 1/1000th of what it should pay if you read the log.
Thank you! I believe this is due to a different locale having different formatting for numbers (i.e. 20,000 vs 20.000) but that still doesn't quite explain why it wouldn't work. Even so, should be fixed.
I've only recently realised that once in a system where I have e.g. the location of a ship in my logs I can go to the log, click the black window saying "In-System" and then it will reveal the location on the system map.
For me that seems not really intuitive. Wouldn't it be easier to just add an according marker to the system map?
If you mean that it's revealing the location of an entity you haven't yet discovered: that's a bug! Made a note.
Sure, but when you're switching between ships in your fleet, you sometimes just exit with 600 extra crew. I wouldn't exactly want to vent 500 crew for 20 meters to dock back (at 1m/s ) which would mean i'm going to lose -666 supplies/second. 
Lose-lose either way.
You *can* drop stuff off into cargo pods, which'll stick around for a while so you can get it back later. This includes crew.
Tutorial feedback
My friend who just bought this game for 0.8a experienced this early on in the tutorial that has caused him to basically fail the tutorial.
Spoiler
I guess I messed up, economically.
You do like, a starter quest... and it says you have to go salvage these ships.
So I go to salvage one of them.
It's total crap, so I go back to base to buy crew and supplies to heal it up.
That cleaned out all my money though.
But the quest didn't continue. I guess I have to salvage all the ships for the quest.
So I go salvage the rest of the ships.
Bring them back to base... maybe to sell or whatever.
But then the quest guy is like "yeah, we will upgrade and repair them for free for you"
"But you have to buy the crew"
So like... I wasn't supposed to use all my money for the first ship I salvage... the quest was going to give me free repairs, and let me just buy the crew.
Anyway, I can't beat the mission, so I am stuck there. So... I guess I gotta start the tutorial over.
Hmm. Given that the tutorial asks you to quicksave, I think this is ... not ideal, but maybe alright?
I guess it could always be made a bit more clear, but different things are clear to different people, and putting the tutorial on strict rails is tricky given how much you can actually do.
Really enjoying the game so far. 
One thing I've noticed is that if you set your destination to a jump point and then jump through it, you will still keep trying to go towards that jump point once you get out on the other side by default. Would be a good QoL feature to clear that once you go through or something, it's annoying those times you forget to do it.
I also think Transverse Jump should have a charge-up time, it's way too trivial to escape using it right now, makes Navigation a must-have. Navigation is back to being one of the absolute best skills in the game between that and the Sustained Burn bonus.
Noted.
@Serentis: Thanks for your feedback!
This essentially removes bounty hunting from the activities a new player will consider viable as a typical starter fleet has an effective range of ~3-5ly. Bounties appear at 10+ ly.
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I could ditch my fleet and go forth with a couple of frigates, but what would be the point? I certainly couldn't take on a bounty with that.
I would ditch the fleet, yes. You can definitely take on the early bounties with 3-4 frigates. I'm not sure what's going wrong for you, though - I've been able to even go on a salvage expedition right off the bat with the post-tutorial fleet, somewhere 20 LY distant or thereabouts. Keep in mind that when you do defeat a bounty fleet, you'll get some fuel etc so you don't *have* to have enough to get back when you set off.
So I've managed to get myself into a position where I am trapped in a system becasue I cannot afford fuel, and have no means of getting it elsewhere. I don't have enough crew to man my ships, and I have barely enough supplies to run them. Essentially game over.
Distress Call ability! Slot 10 by default.
Lumen are tedious.
Hotfix #2.
Why the flares for the apogee? It has 360 degree shields so its not like a missile will sneak up its tailpipe, wouldn't a different system make more sense? Doesn't have to be something like sensor drones(though I'd love you if it was). Just something that effects it's engines or shields or something.
Its shield is Frontal, so there is a point to the flares if you're caught with your shields down. Plus even if it were Omni you don't always want to eat a torpedo to your shields. And overall the Apogee was too good (still a bit too good I'd argue), it needed a nerf.
That just about covers it, yeah - those exact reasons.
I agree that the Atropos should at least have 1250 damage (the flippin' Hammer has 1500) if it's going to keep the slower speed...
I feel this weapon was nerfed purely because the Trident bombers have them.
More about the Daggers, but yeah. May make sense to reduce the OP cost, I'll take a look.
(It had 1250 damage at one point during testing, and it was *insane* on Daggers.)
