Ohio9: Regardless of which career I pick, boarding is my favorite aspect of the game if I have the option. It takes so many steps to complete the operation that it really feels rewarding, and of course the financial reward is huge.

However, it often gets frustrating because I always take too many crew casualties. Even when I use "commando strike", I still keep losing crew members. As a result, even when I have an enormous numerical advantage and outcome of the battle is never in doubt, I still lose so many crew members that I go below the minimum required to fly my ship, making it take forever to tow the captured ship back to port.

I really hate this because it makes no sense. I'm the one sending the boarding party. If I have enough marines and war bots to win the battle with just them, then I should have the option of not sending any crew or officers as part of the boarding party at all. That way I wouldn't have to bring so many surplus crew members over the minimum and winning easy boarding battles wouldn't still cost me months of wasted time due to crew casualties.

Also one last minor issue. The stat tracking for career mode should distinguish between ships you destroy and ships you capture. I'd like to have a final tally of the number of ships I captured since those take much more effort to pull off.