Quiet the good Idea. I also wished the circle you can't put ships would be permanently shown, as that would make placement quicker. Sadly I found this Game to be quite easy to "optimize the fun out". Just dropping ships as soon as you could as close to the spawn boxes and overwhelming the enemy ship with alot of numbers was very effectiv (the only way I actually was able to win) but also quite boring, I didn't even looked at the planet.