mobs

I'd like to start by saying that I have been extremely impressed with the leaps and bounds this game has gone through over the course of it's development. From flying around hockey puck planets to developing full fledged factions. Truly amazing stuff! This being said, I'm having a hard time...

Today I finally downloaded the NPC update. I went to scavenger space to see what fleets are like, and I was greeted by literally 30 ships all shooting at each other. My fps dropped to 1 and I just barely got my ship out of the area. Is this intentional ? I know we all want to see epic battles...

Does anybody know what stage the mobs for Starmade are at? I know a couple years ago they announced that they were working on it, but since then there has been nothing about it. I'm just wondering because I have a planet/trading station that I want to populate with people and species.

I play a lot on single player and I've made custom ships for the pirates and traders to use. No matter what I do the pirates will spawn with a mix of their own designs and trader ships and vice versa. It really breaks the immersion and I was wondering how hard of a change this could be anyways...