I have a small annoyance that hopefully the dev team will be interested in solving.

When I'm positioning myself to grab a stack of money after killing off some pirates, for example, My allied ships will get in the way while I'm trying to pull it up with my abduction beam. When the ships cross paths with my beam, the item I'm pulling up will be dropped, and sometimes gets flung pretty far away. The way I've gotten around this is my positioning myself over the item I want, fully stopping, wait for my allied ships to get into thier positions behind, and then finally pick up the item.
I want to be able to swoop in, quickly grab something and move on.

My idea for a solution is to make allied ships not interfere with your abduction beam, just let it pass through them.

Ooh, this happens when you fire colonies and other tools down planetside too. If they swoop in, the object wlll FLIIIIING into the atmosphere, causing you to needto reload because you can't leave the lanet until it hits the ground, and uhh... it will be hitting the ground no time soon.

i find it easier to get as close to the ground as possible when trying to pick things up with the abduction beam