They already are. I think they're trying to make very good for us rather than putting some unfinished version that everyone would hate.

Overall, great idea. It would be cool to be able to use some old ships you don't have really any need for, put a BOff on it, and let it follow you around giving you support. I would like the idea of telling what my crew should do. Like to get into a formation, or attack a particular shield facing, etc, but that would be hard to do.

I don't like the idea of only being able to use a TIER LOWER ship, because I bet there are a good chunk of people (myself included) who has about 3 T5 ships doing nothing. I have the Assault Cruiser, Star Cruiser, Advanced Cruiser Retrofit, Advanced Escort, Recon Science, the Dreadnaught Cruiser, and the Tactical Escort Retrofit. Eventually I'm going to get the Exploration Cruiser Retro. (Yeah, I'm a ship *****), but if I have to shove out a LOT of money for all those ships than I should better use them!!!!

The system I think would be good if for you to be able to put your BoFF's on certain ships (which when you do that they regain a "standard" armament like when you first got them, because many transferred their old stuff onto ther new ships, leaving their old ones with nothin), those BOffs can use their powers on those ships, but we might be able to "train" ships with other powers (like a Tact ship with Engineering Team), but not as much as the player ship. (So the max for my NPC Assault for Tact would be 1 Ensign Tact, slot, etc.)

Also, much like BoFF's on the ground, we should be able to activate their powers (like my Galaxy-X and it's phaser spinal lance), whenever we choose, especially if it aids us in combat. Overall, it would be a nice thing to have to make us FEEL like we're admirals instead of just captains.

So you don't like the fact that you'd need some sort of level cap in this personal fleet but you want Admirals to feel like Admirals and not Captains. Yet you want your officers commanding Admiral level ships, reporting to another Admiral?

I don't think you thought this all the way through.

Having some sort of caps in terms of number of ships and thier tier levels might be a good idea, since without it why would anyone bother to bring out anything other than all tier5?

But if they did the caps by way of "command" type captain skills then you could have one skill that increases the number of ships you can have with you. And maybe another skill that increases the max tier level of the ships you can command. That way you can choose to spec for bringing out T5 ships but at a cost to your abilities elsewhere both within the command skill tree and/or at the expense of being able to invest in other nifty more lone-wolf abilities (everything has to have a trade off).

In addition, perhaps they could add a few command type skills that unlock specialized abilities for ships (based on tiers) in your task group. That way your little T1 might not pack the punch of a T5 escort, but it's still pretty useful because it does "X special skill" for your battlegroup.

Easy

$

Pony up some $ and I am sure they would put whatever you deem top priority as their top priority.
I personally don't have that sort of cash laying about, but for all multi-millionaires play - eh - go for it.

* Note - not sarcastic, but it certainly could be.

so if they give fleet admirals constant ship pets (non summons boff commanded ect) hopefully oyu can use multiple copies of ships you own, that way you can fly the dread and have dread pets lul, decloak and hit that poor ******* with however many of oyu there are phaser lances!