I think all your energy should be on working on your game... putting this much energy into trying to prove a review wrong isn't going to change anything. In fact the opposite happens. There is now a post on reddit with over 100 upvotes about avoiding naval action... the devs could have avoided all of this.
If your game is good the reviews as a whole will reflect that (look at how positive the reviews were a year ago). I, personally, am waiting for the game to improve before I hop back in again...
I always wondered if the battletech system would work in Naval Action... like you have a BR max and you can bring a bunch of smaller ships or less bigger ships, you would have to find a good balance on your team.
Anyway, this patch sounds like a good step in the right direction.
That was my major concern over this idea as well... putting more importance on boarding, in it's current state, isn't something I would enjoy. I find the rock/paper/scissor element of boarding to be pretty weak gameplay which comes down to who has the better ability to click a button at the last second.
Other than that I like the proposed changes.
I think this is a fair solution, new players need a semi-safe area to level up and learn the ropes. It wouldn't be a terrible idea to have low level missions (up to 2nd LT?) spawn near the capital and it be a no pvp zone.
You must not have played many online games, lol.
TBH, after the economy change I am surprised the devs didn't do a ship and gold wipe, I for one would welcome one now that you need an economic backbone and can't just buy from NPCs.
How do you think farming should be dealt with? I was thinking something like if there were no key input for a certain amount of time (say 5-10 minutes?) that no damage against you would count for the person shooting you... you would still take the damage but the person shooting you wouldn't get credit.
If I understand what the devs were saying... people would just AFK and let people (their friends) farm them... so this way it would be very boring for the farmer.