In many gals the amient lighting levels are so low you cannot even see your own ship. This makes combat very annoying as it is impossible to see the orientation of your ship.
Your ship at least should be visible.

Also as a general comment there should always be a star background to enable you to judge your motion visually. I note there is none in deep space and many gals have a superabundance of dust and stuff that obscures vision.

I note that in C1 you can remove the files that cause annoyance but this can cause crashes and is not patch friendly. It would be nice if you could simply switch off the effects that you find annoying.

indeed. I have died many times to not knowing where my ship is pointed.

agreed completely

-Died twice for not knowing the direction I faced(Cadet front looked like the back).
-Died three times for not being able to SEE the damned Cadet, let alone know whats the front or back.
-Said Fuck It and nevah gonna play again.
-Will be back tomorrow.

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as you can see here, this issue was fixed.