Endless Space 1 Tactics and Combat

Considering the developers wanted to create a system where the auto-resolve had the exact same outcome as actively participating in the combat animations, I don't see anything of this nature being added in the future. Put simply, micromanaging the actual battle would mean better results, basically making auto-resolve a worse outcome and forcing multiplayer games to actively fight through every battle and greatly slowing down multiplayer sessions.

so putting back the various categories tactics were in(sabotage,offence, defence,tactics and engineering) is out of the question as well ? That's disappointing, it added a neat depth to combat, besides micromanaging the battle yourself, could give you a better result in Endless legend for instance, if you knew what you were doing, Exactly like in Total War games, you could always auto resolve, but you could(and were encouraged to) to handle the battle yourself