Sensible discussion about 1.0

For me it would be Orbital. I think that's all they need to sort out, in comparison to the rest of the game it's not as elegant. The balance is pretty good (bots are for raiding/support, we get that now), I'm loving the UI, the AI is a scumbag (which it should be), and the concept of the game is brilliant.
Once Uber sort out the orbital side of the game, I think we'll have 1.0.

I agree with pretty much all of this, except for the disclosure of finances. I think it's unreasonable to want to know any more about Uber's finances beyond "we can still afford to work on this game and feed our families", as that is really all we need to know in regards to our investment into the game initially. I'm sure people disagree, but that's just my viewpoint.

Which, since they are talking about Gas Giants, in the soonTM future, should be top of the list.
Also, Gas Giants and Orbital are the stretch goal I wanted the most of all, so I'm really hyped up to see the first peeks at them.
I can't wait to see huge solar systems with gigantic robber barons of Gas Giants, stealing the moons of small planets they come across and sending them accidentally hurtling into new orbits, a heavily populated asteroid belt, and multiple different types of planets. All with like eight person FFAs raging on them. (this plus unit cannons launching from moons to their planets and from planets to other planets at optimal periods in their orbits pretty much sums up my dream vision of the game, and though I creak and, without posting much, moan of the balance of particular units, I'm fully prepared not to give one single damn if this dream vision comes true)

Not going to lie, when i saw your list had 7 parts, i thought there was going to be something outrageous in there. But all of those are perfectly reasonable, Depending on how soon the release plan is, all those things could probably be done. I personally wouldn't consider some of those suggestions to be top priority, but they aren't demanding compared to a lot of other features other people are spewing out. (jesus, some of the suggestions....). I guess we see similarly, because I am also learning game development.