BlueD,
Here is an improvement I would love to see - the ability to target a certain enemy ship. Often I may want to shoot at a certain ship, but because multiple targets are at equal range, the CPU logic randomly selects one. As a player I hate this, as a big part of the game for me is making sure that business is taken care of - sometimes this means shooting at the ship with the least remaining hull, sometimes it means shooting at a certain ship's rigging, or it could mean purposefully targeting the captured ship, etc etc.
We have talked about this in the past, although maybe not during your tenure on YouPlay, and we had discussed having a simple drop-down "preferred target" menu for each ship so it could target the designated ship IF possible for that combat phase. The idea was to avoid a "targeting phase" that would slow the game down - although for me that would be the proper choice, slow the game down and add in all the phases in the proper order...
Cheers,
Derek