Sorry if either of these have been mentioned before, but I did a search on the first one and found nothing that jumped out at me.

1. Mining beams do damage. This would be really useful, because say if you get attacked while you're mining, and you put mining beams in all of your slots. What's one to do? Target the opposing ship, and heat it up. This should have no effect on their hull, and if so, maybe a small one. It should affect their energy levels, is what I say. And, speaking from a game modding background, I know somewhat how hard it is to do these things. it might be impossible. If so, that's cool, I'm just saying that this would be a really neat thing if it was done.

2. Cloaked ships? This may have been discussed, sorry if it has, but I think this would be a neat idea as well. Say, have the "weapon" take up about 30-50 energy per second, and during the time it's cloaked, they're name in the Sector pilot list be black like some NPC's I've noticed, and no affect on the radar dot. This might be a lot harder to implement, but also, it would be really neat.

Thanks for reading this!

Cloaking has been suggested frequently. Mining beams doing damage has been mentioned less frequently.