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Click the 'auto' button right by the turn select, and it'll keep progressing until certain events arrive (it won't stop for officer updates, but it will stop for research complete, for instance).  There's NPRs fighting where you can't see them, and until they resolve their fight it'll keep on short turns.  The obvious solution to this is to remove NPRs.  By force.

HARK a bump!

On sale, 65% off.  $20 down to $7.  Get it while it's hot, fail to build boats, watch Let's Plays for days, cry, sit in vehicle designer mode blowing stuff up.  Repeat until you feel you've gotten $7 worth of enjoyment.

Alternatively, time to group up and play the worst multiplayer ever?

Deploy the smallest ship you can with sensor missiles, probably fired at warp points as those are spread out pretty well.  Would suggest using passive EM sensors, as that size of actives on the precursors will shine like a lightbulb.  Once you have an idea of where they are, you can set up your tactics better.  Large armor+shield+active sensor chunk ship flanked by turrets of meson/lasers could have a good chance of hitting them at range.  Plus with one ship, it's easier to pack in CIWS since you know it'll be the target.  FAC with lasers/particles could also get your tracking speed up and more able to hit them.

Personally I'd probably go with high-burning fighter or FAC with close range weapons.  Size 2-5 engines with the maximum speed output, tiny fuel, no engineering, big weapon.  Box launchers or even carronades could dish out a lot of damage at close range.

WHY did the advanced inventory management change so that you have to enter a number to transfer, and pressing 'm' cancels?  Press / to open management, find something you want, press m... then confirm that there's only 1 gas mask and you only want to move 1.  It has managed to become LESS streamlined, even though you ALREADY had a quantity option if the item was a stack.  Now you don't move things by default and you get prompts where they're not relevant.

Does Space Engineers have a standalone server program?  If so, it should be relatively easy to write a bit of code that runs on the desktop 'if server.exe isn't running or responding, then open server.exe'

Yes and no.  You can have carronades on strike craft, ready to move close by and unload.  Or you can have spinal lasers.  But higher jump tech gives you a greater radius to enter a system, so you drop out further from the gate, making gate ambushes more difficult.  You can also deploy mines - missiles with sensors that sit and wait - and need no upkeep.

Emerald TR, indeed.  Been trying to run with random squads and it's frustrating at the best.  No one communicates.  The few times I have run with an organized squad we were flipping dozens of bases.