Hello!
New player here. About 50 hours clocked in so far. I enjoy the game, but there's one feature I dislike. When you're in the lobby hosting a game, I really don't like how the bonus ship types are attached randomly to planets on a map. If the maps were all handmade custom challenges, I can see the validity in giving specific planets, specific bonus ships based on their location and what they'll be fighting against, but the maps are completely random. You never have any clue as to what you'll be next to, or up against, when you start a game, so my suggestion is to give players the option to pick their bonus ship from a drop down menu within the lobby. It is a small thing, I know, but it seems clunky to me that I have to spam the "new map seed" button until I find a ship type I want to use. It gets even more tedious when you're starting a game with multiple friends, because everyone wants their own ship type.
Why not let us pick our ship type from a drop down box inside the pre-game lobby, and then let us start on whatever planet we want on the map?
Thanks for your time.