When I have ships docked and load them with goods SS uses all of my alt's aug adds. BUT when I program the ships to trade goods they loose all of my aug adds and only use the augs on the ships.

This is wrong as I have done nothing to alter the size of the ship. All ships in an Alt's fleet should get ALL of the Alt's aug adds & bonuses, whether the Alt in on the ship, loading the ship in a base or programming ship for trading.

Trade slaves don't get class bonuses. It has been this way for quite some time now and is not a bug.

And my point is they should.

look at it this way: You buy a BIG family car... (You went to driving school, took driver's ed in HS, and have a class "C" drivers license and can pilot 18 wheelers, your wife learned to drive on her fathers lap... now the good part):

When you drive the car it can carry 12 passengers, 50 cubic feet of storage, gets 150 MPG, goes 500 MPH, and can tow a 50 ton trailer.

When your wife drives the car she can only carry 1 passenger, 4 cu feet of storage (if there is no passenger), gets 12 GPM, goes 25 MPH (down hill with a strong back wind) and can't tow anything, and needs to be pushed up 2% grades.

Makes sense. That's why she's supposed to be in the kitchen.