I'd like to see the ages of the initial officer corps increased. Seems a bit off to have a 21 year old Rear Admiral. Possibly increase the age 2-3 years per promotion?
I'd also like to see a modifier to increase lifespan of officers. Just because we only have a 75-80 year life span doesn't mean that a TN race will too
I like the realistic promotions, but it isn't unusual to see them die or retire before earning many medals when it is used. I know you can manually prevent it on an individual basis, but I would prefer to just give them longer life spans.
Also, perhaps more triggers for medals like assignment to a given task, ie assigned 1st officer, assigned science officer, etc. Basically a ticket punching mechanism to give promotion points to officers that have been used & also increase the number of medals for the more experienced & higher ranking officers.