you could also be able to track down and re-jack your ship!

maybe allow the player to hire a mechanic

lol, yeah. I guess that was kind of ambiguous

you could also have the ability to hijack ships while they are still in the shipyard!

for accuracy, what about have a certain path deterioration for certain things. Bullets with low accuracy might veer off to the side slightly and miss (not noticably), while bullets with high accuracy would shoot straight.

I meant with all the ideas he had I'd be happy to check yours out, though

just using uranium because it's around today

And what about being able to buy new ships for your wingmates? have a whole army of ships!

Weapons would break, but they would be designed not to, especially because they were designed to withstand combat fire! Maybe shielding for individual ship components as well as for the entire ship? Once the shielding is broken then it could break.

maybe an additional game interface for boarding? a little minigame type of thing? It'd probably be too drastic, but it's possible.

You never know until you try

and get killed while going forward because they didn't have that item

And what about a way that you could lead a friendly construction ship to an unclaimed stargate to build a gate. Make there be less inflow of baddies coming to kill you. It would be only a matter of time before they destroy the gate, though, and come through anyway.

uranium tipped shells!

Just throwing it out there.

and if you do remotely placed charges, you could also make it so that you could blow up an enemy station by placing charges on the inside (assuming you could ever get inside *hint hint*)