After several hours with the game the one thing that I dislike the most is the lack of information on how some systems work.

The combat system is the worst offender: I do not understand it at all. Ships have offensive and defensive stats and before the battle you get to choose some percentage values. But what do these numbers actually do? What is happening when i hit "begin battle". I do not see the connection between the combat results and all those numbers.

But there are other systems that I do not comprehend. The whole elections thing certainly, happiness, diplomacy (why are they attacking me? Is everyone essentially a pirate? What is going on?)...

So I would appreciate it if the devs could focus on better ingame documentation and on making things clearer and easier to understand. I can't really test the game because there's so much that I do not grasp. In 6h I've never made it past turn ~50 because strange things happen that kill and/or frustrate me. I really want to understand what's going on. :)

edit: I should mention that I have played neither ES1 nor EL nor do I have much experience with space 4x (I've played MoO2 back in the days but that's about it). Maybe that makes it harder for me to understand ES2.