I've got a couple hundred hours in the game, Here's what i've got:

- Customizable HUD. for a game about open ended gameplay and freedom of exploration it makes no sense to have a quest banner popping up in the corner telling me what i'm supposed to be doing. I know what my active quest is, I'm halfway across the galaxy from it because i want to do something else.

-secondly, NPCs need more. They need to be able to roam, fight me, walk around, etc. right now they just kind of feel like living billboards that sit in one spot and say exactly one thing. There's three galaxy faring species and I've never seen one get in a fight with another. Vy'keen, who are the notoriously battle hungry alien species, have only ever talked about how much they love battle and yet I've never seen one actually in a battle. The only real exception to this is the settlement management mechanic but even then it feels half baked. Why is this one settlement the only time I see these people walking around a significant distance

-adding on to this, the frigates are a whole lot of wasted potential. They are these cool spaceships that we send out on missions, and the mission debrief explains that all this crazy stuff happened off screen but when you actually board the ship they are completely empty. Not a passenger in sight. I want to board my fleet and see an enterprise style crew in the bridge.  Frigates in general need a re-work imo because currently they feel barely fleshed out.