Nice update! I'm holding off until the DLC activates as well and I want to try the patch and DLC in conjunction.
This sounds really interesting. Looks like we'll have a lot more to think about when doing space battles with the new ship options and roles. But I'm even more interested to see the war aim system in action. If it's done well that could be a game changer.
I fully agree, this surely needs improvement. I know it's tricky, but I'm sure they can make the AI smarter in this regard. The AI had me against the ropes in my current game. Those dastardly Manti had a much bigger fleet than I had, but I managed to sneak my way out of it by killing it's beelining fleets and sniping some ships here and there. Now I'm in complete control, why I should have probably lost this game.
I think the test edition will feature lots of small in between updates and the normal version will have the bigger / more stable updates, but not totally sure about that. So it would be great to get an answer from the devs. For now I installed the 'normal' version.
