Thanks for your reply mosgrom. I can understand some players like it the way it is but gamers cover a wide spectrum now adays (im in my 40s) and younger players no doubt like quick reflexes games etc and there were times i played last night having quick reflexes would of helped. But yeah much less of those birds on starter planet (or even starter system) would be a good idea. What about there is some addons for your ship/taxi you can purchase- where these birds are deflected away from you via rapid release of compressed air from all sides of ship via a hotkey (rmb or/ spacebar) this potentially could deflect 2 birds if they are close enough. You could have a blur outline around the ship when using this. But this device uses compressed air and will need to be refilled (im not sure if there is a fuel/refuel mechanic in the game) but if so where we get fuel is where we could top up our gas tanks. Perhaps this also could be used to brake very quickly from 3 - 0 in half a second- even if traveling fast but uses up more compressed gas (spacebar + w for front)  is used to only have the gas fire out the front of the ship .  This idea could also branch out into combat (i recall reading there is combat in the game but the game is not combat heavy) but imagine there is some yahoos or drunks who like to/ ram taxis in the game- and you can deflect their attacks with this compressed air mechanic (3 successful consecutive deflects will have the yahoo give up and go away or the first time)- this could be a rare event anyway, but just an idea how the compressed air idea could have more purpose. I dont know if you ever will have ground side locations in the future, but this compress air could make the taxi into a hovercraft as well like on water. But i know i am going a bit over board with ideas here lol (excuse the pun).

If you do not like my compressed-air deflect hostiles idea (one might think in the gameworld someone would try to invent something to counter those birds) another idea could be the player can dive under the bird (if in time) or up and over the bird this which only lasts for several seconds until the taxi returns to flight altitude again (player can still turn the whole time though).  Also being able to go up briefly before returning back to the normal flight level this could be handy to fly over buildings where you might have auto-landing on but want to avoid. This mechanic could have other uses in the game in the future, such as Air-racing. Player could buy or hire a racing ship (a taxi driver has to have recreation lol) and there could be a track with hoops that ship has to fly through and sometimes over- a simple colored racing line that can show where dipping is required and going over (this might be too hard to implement but ideas cost nothing). This could be like a rally- as in one competitor at a time and fastest time (you are not racing others at the same time and space) so it will be somewhat skill based being able to turn and use the throttle (although throttle control might have to be more fluid in the game) - maybe controller support in the future. Perhaps some tracks will have a leaderboard that shows other players rankings.  But anyway i am getting off tangent here. I was just pointing out these two ideas that could have other purposes in the game. But the other secondary purposes would be further down the list of ideas naturally. Still these might be redundant ideas as there could be higher priority ideas to work towards which i understand, i am just put ideas out there for consideration. 

Will it be possible later on to buy faster taxis? either they travel faster and turn faster or you can only have 1 type (turn faster or go faster)?

I will try adding more armor to my taxi, thanks for the idea (i didnt know i could). 

Where do i get more armor? i am at a repair garage where i thought i could have armor installed on the taxi? but i did see some person armor for sale at another place but that doesn't really make much sense if i had to wear body armor.

Part 2 of my Feedback...

Even though i have got better at avoiding those birds, i think they should be removed from starter planet completely, before i suggested reducing them. I think they would be fine for other planets in another system once the player gets the hang of things.  I had banged up my taxi and had a client and since i couldnt speed up to get out of the way i had further more crashes where the client wanted to get off.  Also i think the player either starts with more money or crash damage is reduced or possibly the taxi has armor on the vehicle (which i think the Dev mentioned already).  It is so easy to go backwards in debt and repair costs become too expensive, even borrowing more money to do repairs you end up crashing again and then cannot get any more loans. Which basically means starting the game over. Since respawn leaves you with 1 vudu. Its a vicious cycle and sucks away all the fun. I am not suggesting making the game super easy because that can be no fun either. 

I will break up my feedback into smaller posts so the dev can reply between them.

I checked out a Starport for the first time today and i liked how there was internal traffic, and lines. However at junctions the traffic is a mess, going really slowly if you make contact by accident with another craft you enter a conversation mode which often can be unwanted. Perhaps when the player bumps into another craft at slow speeds and a conversation is possible the game auto-pauses if it doesnt already and a dialogue icon appears over the other vehicle and player has to click on it if they do want to talk to that npc, else if the player moves on the icon disappears. This would speed up play.   Getting back to the traffic jams, i think there could be lanes- that have intermitted blinking lines (like a runway) which having corridors for the Ai to follow and cannot cross over might make things look better and flow better.  These could have invi boundries that even the player cannot cross over? this could be only inside Starports.  And possibly use decent size roundabouts for junctions for better traffic flow. 

Also while here i got pinged by Federal Security for some reason and they wanted me to stop, which i did and demanded i pay 50k for unknown reasons. I am not sure if this was too many road rage i accumlated over the course or the game or it was a case of extortion. I didn't have enough so they threatened me with a laser gun, the window said choose Action.  It took me a minute to realise my action choices were in the far right slot panel after i noticed the usual icons where gone and thus i must need to click on something there. I  only had the choice of inaction.  Long story short i was shot to death. So thoughts on that..ouch lol.  Perhaps the popup encounter window could be moved to be adjacent the choices slots, which maybe a white border could go around the encounter window and merge with the choices slot panel area as if they are one. Or there could be choices slots below the encounter icons within that window. 

Also some better information why i was being fined. I might of clicked on something to fast to not have re-read it but it would be nice if some dialogue could be had, not sure if there is a stat for charisma or conversation skill where you could attempt to talk your way out of it or at least reduce the fine. Such a conversation mini-game here might be fun. However some NPC could get impatient if the conversation goes around in circles and decides to shoot you.  

I also did some system traveling initially i wanted to fly to that system far away that sells the anti-grav tech. But the list of destinations GM3322 etc dont really help in knowing which ones to go towards as it might take many jumps to get to that system. I did work out that if you click on Ok (or whatever it was called) when choosing a destination it will show its path and you can back out of that without accepting it.  I think it would be more initituive if the travel agent window goes to the right or left of screen and all lines from starport are drawn to all destinations it goes to and the player simply clicks on the one they want. It would save a lot of time and be more straight forward to see which destination you need to take to move you closer to your further away destination. 

Also another space game i played recently called Endless Sky had a good destination travel system for jumping between systems. You would click on the far away system you want to go to and it would draw lines to all the systems inbetween and use a blue color line according to how much fuel you had. If your destination is beyond your fuel reach, the remaining lines/links system to system to your destination would be red.  I think something like this could work- especially if traveling on a larger vessel and not having to worry about arriving at one stop and having to change flights as it were.  I think Galatic Liners are suppose to fly the furtherest but havent worked out how to find them at a Starport yet.