A random observation.
Imagine a group of 2 freighters and 4 tugs. I think ‘wow, I could get some handy processed cheese from this lot’ so I launch my t-fighters. I tell them to attack 1 tug and I take another one out. Now, the other 2 tugs haven’t turned hostile on me (red) but they are attacking my T-fighters. However, the t-fighters just seem to sit there because the tug isn’t red and so they don’t attack it. And then they die. So I have to recycle them. Or just use them as turrets. Neither of which I enjoy. A bug I guess?
On a separate observation, the difficulty of the game has plunged from the end of act 1 (now finishing act 2). Fly around in my patcom with twin linked gatling cannons, destroy everything, where is the challenge? 🙂