Perhaps as a compromise, at the start of a battle that you suspect will be very long and drawn out, you could have a button to request reinforcements.

Any ships within...say 10 sectors would stop what they were doing (You'd have to be careful, as this could expose key systems to later attack, or allow other enemies into your space)

The ships would of course use up fuel to get thee, but would more as though you were using actual turns in-game, so after the 20-turn battle, a speed-4 ship would have moved 4 sectors closer. (Sat it was 10 sectors away)

After another 20 battle-turns, the ship is now 4 sectors closer, then after another 20 battle-turns, (Battle-turn 60) the ship(s) would have arrived. Of course, if the ship(s) had only been one sector away, it would only have taken 20 battle-turns to arrive.

Sounds good... Earlier I was thinking about how in the shows when one Federation ship gets severely damaged, another ship that is in much better shape will get inbetween the enemy and the damaged ship to buy that ship enough time to escape. Could there be a 'defend' command added to the battle controls?

We dont have Upgrades for the ships. But could it be possible that the ships could get a bonus with the progress of research. I thought about 5% for every specific techlevel. For example the shields: basic=200, then you are at the next techlevel, so the shields are now by 210. I think it could also work for weapons and hull. It could be a reason don't scrap old ships because they weren't up to date but still usefull. And the research wouldn't become useless after techlevel 12. What do you think?

It's a good idea if it can be implemented.
But we need to get ship stats to make sure older classes don't out-power newer ones.

good choice. Even if the tech is 10 levels higher the ship would only have a bonus of 50%.

Well, just to nitpick, 63%?

Right, didn't think (once again ), the power would be added up to the base after every tech... Or if it w(sh)ould be, at all?

lol, I'm tempted to say 62,889463%, but I won't

Well, an average 1.3% either way won't kill anyone.

Guess the one that easiest to do...

I assume you'll know that, ftranschel. From the flagship thread I got the idea you know a few things about programing and stuff

if you look at my example you could see that i meant + 5% for each tech from the basicworth

I've already calculated ship strengths for every ship type in the game, and compiled a master ship strength table. I quite like the idea though for increased strengths over the tech level. This would add a new dimension to various empire strengths. I'll have to give it a try and see what the numbers are.