I think vendetta could learn a lot from the old skool star wars x-wing games. You had full control of almost every aspect of your ship. (I know vend doesn't have shelds but..) you could lower your shields for engine power, or raise them, or direct them to your nose or tail, you could select which order your weapons fire in (or simultaenous) you could lock on to enemeis and match their speed. Speaking of which the nav lock on sucks because you can't cycle through (live) obejcts in the system. You also can't selecy nearst friendly. So those are just a few ideas, ovbiously you fill up the keyboard pretty fast. Maybe some things (weapon fire order or whatever) would be best left to a menu.

P.S: can you change ur grouping out of a station? if not that should be added