I'd like to see some waypoint / autopilot controls. Even on one of the YT videos linked earlier commentors mentioned they wanted a way to waypoint drones on the surface of planets to move themselves.
I know for myself I tried launching a bunch of ion powered satellites and the individual burns to get them to their proper orbits was a pain in the rear. as a suggestion this would work via an autopilot chip that gets added to the craft, you can then use the map to plan burns and actions and simpler autopilot chips would only be able to hold X many future instructions. So if I wanted to launch a cluster of sattelites I'd just switch to each and give them burn instructions to their proper orbits, then set up the future burns to get them into orbit. Then likely also have some kind of a 'alert completed' task I could add at the end that would ping me in some way and put a notification next to that crafts name in the tracking station.
For rovers this could mean traveling to a different location under their own steam ( presuming they had the power to do so ). And as a more complex example of what might be possible on the more capable autopilot controls you could set up a simple loop to have a ship go from a mine on a surface up to a station in orbit, deposit goods, and then return.
The main point being that I'd like to be able to pass off tasks I've done a number of times already to an autopilot. Also I dislike that there's no easy way to plan or notify ( in the stock game ) of burn locations and such. IF you do a mission to a further out planet you can play that one craft and spend 5 years of time accelerating waiting for that craft to get to its proper burn / orbit. IT'd be nice to set up the craft to do that itself, or alert when control was needed, so I could continue running my space program with a number of these long missions on the go at once.
IMO this automation would be somewhat critical if you're trying to manage multiple solar systems of ships / colonies/
