Up next...the Festron:

Another decent base-level ship and I appreciate the lack of logistics needs. It's nothing special, but it's a good entry-level commander ship.

The +100 credits per battle don't really feel thematic with the Festron. I think a bonus to food, which would insinuate that the occupants are harvesting the losers of the battle, would fit better. 

From what Old Spider is saying, the capture ships aspect of this ship DOES NOT WORK. See below.

Again, the +1 Research aspect of this ship isn't *really* thematic, but if it's because the Festron are mutilating bodies or whatever to produce it, then I'm okay with it. 

Its special isn't unique, but I don't mind some of the "ship powers" overlapping. This is a decent ship. 

AGAIN, the CAPTURE SHIPS ability DOES NOT WORK. See below.

As the "ultimate ship" for the Festron, I'd like to see more here. Perhaps a special that adds a chance to adding a Festron citizen at the nearest colony? Something that feels more thematic with the whole "The Festron put eggs in aliens" theme. 

The Festron don't feel thematic enough as it stands. Sure, the flavor text sounds a bit thematic, but the actual abilities of their ships either don't work (see Old Spider's post below), or they don't feel like ships operated by the space horrors that they're clearly intended to be. 

Reserved for more ship feedback 3/5

Reserved for more ship feedback 5/5

I think what you are doing is a good idea.

You, along with everyone else, need to be aware that some of the commander ships don't work right.  I have found and reported one in the past, and I think others have also reported some that don't work.  As far as I can tell, none was ever fixed.

With GalCiv4 Next being worked on, I decided to check several ships I thought had problems to see if they really did and if I could find the cause or causes of the problems.  I would then try to fix them before reporting all the information so they can be officially fixed before the release of Next.

It is not obvious where I reported what I found, but they are in this post as replies #1 and #3.  Some of the ships you have commented on are in my post as being broken or possibly broken.

I hope you and many others will try out as many commander ships as possible to find out if they really do what they are supposed to do.  I plan to do more checking to see what works and doesn't work.  I also encourage all to report what does work so that no one will have to wonder if that ship should be checked.

Absolutely! "The Lash" heals completely after every successful battle.  That is very useful for things like cleaning-out Ship Graveyards.