There are a few threads popping up about this but they are more about the mines and how to deal with them. 

What I really want to see is more control over the fleets.  There are a few areas I would like to be able to have more control; the areas of placement of ships, speed of the fleet and maybe even priority of use of abilities when in a fleet (I'm talking about something like the closest ship uses the ability so the furthest one away isn't assigned it and have to wait for them to get in range before it happens)

So, the last one might be hard to do so I didn't really put much thought into it...and maybe changing the engagement range migh have the same results so whatever.

Now, placement of ships is a big one that I really think would be great for the game.  I don't know how it would work but I have an idea of how it can work.  You can set up some sort of general placement of ships when not in game, like you can design maps, you should be able to design how your fleet is placed.  Lets say you want all the the support ships spread out evenly around the fleet, you just choose that and when in game the computer will adjust it by itself when seeing how many ships you have.  Also, because these are just general things, I would hope the computer will be able to adjust things accordingly.  Also, if having such specific arrangement in the game is hard to do, maybe you can have a limit of how many custom arrangements you have, something like 3 different ones.  I don't know, just throwing out ideas.

Finally, ship speed in fleets.  I don't think you would really need to preset this off a game.  So, maybe how this can work is you pick one in a fleet and have everyone go at maximum of that speed...the point of this is just to keep the fleet together so it doesn't start breaking apart during a battle and you have some ships you need too far away from the fleet.

I have ALWAYS had my capital ship as my fleet leader so i have no idea if picking another ship will cause the fleet to move at their speed or change the arrangement of the fleet, if it does, well, that would be interesting but it wouldn't satisfy because I am pretty sure each ship would still clump with itself and i would want it a bit different.  Do you guys think this is possible or have any other ideas?