First reaction

Love the new engine!  Graphics are spot on.  I have an ATI RX460 card, Ryzen 2600x with 32gb ram, and the game ran like butter. 

Very Quick Thoughts:

-How to create a fleet?  I can't keep selecting these ships to move in formation when I have 200 in a battle. 

-Love the familiar things, makes getting into it easier.  Look forward to the new!

-Love the UI style, but it is large, clunky, and with no colorful buttons (like red for attack) make it harder to quickly remember which to click.  Also don't like how the UI is not transparent or dark like Sins1, that went better with space, but I otherwise like it.

-In all games, think Civ, Sins1, I like a tech tree to see where I am going.  I don't like list views like it is now.  Fine with tabs for differing things tho to clean it up, sins 1 was perfect.

-Can I take ships in and out of the garrison, and can I restrict them to the gravity well, etc?  I don't like them darting off without orders or warning and getting killed.  Otherwise love the garrison idea.

-LOVE the asymmetric gravity wells due to asteroid configs, etc.

-So glad to see this, I have been playing Sins 1 and one day I thought "wonder if they will ever make a sins2, let me google it" and what a surprise I got!

Thanks!