It’s rather annoying that when a match ends you have to reselect all abilities. Potentially lethal if you need them and forget because of it (like if you are playing Necrons). Abilities should either a) not deselect or b) warn/stop you if you try to play without them.

Same here. In addition, these abilities and upgrades get reset even when changing subfaction (when maybe one just wants to change the colors of their ships).

Also, it would be really nice to get a warning when no abilities/upgrades have been selected, or there are unused slots for those.

bump: please, yes