A Few Improvements

First of all, Great Job! I'm really enjoying the game!

There are a few things I'd like to see.

1. Quicksave - I am really missing a quicksave option, for instance F5 for quicksave and F8 for quickload or something similar (3 quicksave slots seems to work nicely with other games).

2. It's not very clear how you can buy the lander and refill fuel in the menu, a hint for new players could help.

3. The initial missile you start out with for the flagship is very underpowered, yes you receive a MUCH better missile after going to the training facility but i think a prompt or quest from the base commander to do a weapons test is warranted.

4. Star Control 2 had the option of transferring crew from the flagship to the other ships in fleet to bring them back to full health, I'd like to have a similar option here, or some other option which wouldn't force me to go back to earth to refill crew on the ships in my fleet.

5. Not sure if it's only my rig but loading times are very long, anything that can be done to lower these, especially loading the menu on startup would be great.

Thanks for all the hard work on this, I'm having a blast!