Not sure if this have already been brought up anywhere,
1: The anchor/unanchor sound for shipyards is always full volume and does not change based on the in game volume sliders, not even if you set the in game sound to 0.
2: This has been brought up before, but when in the ship designer it can be extremely difficult to see your designs when looking at most angles, specifically looking under the ship. The Light in the scene really needs an option to stay fixed and not rotate when you rotate the scene so your able to better light areas of your ship. Currently you either get blown out bright lighting at some angles, or more commonly you get an extremely dark underside of a ship. A brightness slider for this light would be fantastic option to add as well. I know it can depend on what textures the ships are using however this really shouldn't be an issue no matter what you choose. Likewise, if the texture is the main culprit then we need to be allowed to change in game in the options the colors of the ships after we have already started the game. That is if the lighting issue isnt going to be looked at.
3: In Galciv 2 you could click on a part in the scene, then click a part you wanted to use from the panel. Then by default it would remember all the settings for the previously chosen part and make them the same allowing for easy duplication of a part with its settings. However atm, unless there is some setting somewhere I am missing, when you do this same process and click on a part in the left menu. It just goes to the defaults settings. This means you have to then go in and change EVERY setting manually of a newly added part. Clicking back and forth between the parts to make sure they are the same. It can become very tedious. If adding this is to difficult, a "copy/paste" all settings buttons would be great to be able to quickly do it for any parts you want it for.