Not an exhaustive list by the OP, but pretty much covered a lot of my feelings. Nicely put together
But my biggest gripe is the sight picture, obviously dependant on what empire you choose. On the live streams i was finding it very awkward. For want of an example the TR is red framed, and when you get an enemy in your sight, you see red, but i noticed a lot of players seemed to be targetting tons of friendlies due to the fact they see the reticule as red and engaged a friendly lol.
I personally would like to see more definition between enemies and friendlies in the sight picture. Obviously it was live streamed so quality not too great, and alpha build, as on lots of occassions enemy didnt get red tagged name.
To some this may not be a big deal, but you will be looking down your sight 90% of the time. You just have to see from the game play to date all the friendly shooting going on.
So devs if your looking in give it a tweak for me please. Cheers