My thoughts on the topic.
I actually don’t care if the season is 2 or 3 months however with the donation planets runing 1 season and the fact that you are considering adding another season donation in form of a donator space,while considering to lower the season duration, seems odd, it could even be seens as greedy.
Therefore it is a clear no to the donator space from my side,after all this is a game we allready bought, yes you have server costs and donations help for sure, but asking more then 100€ for donations space is just way too much ( at least in my opinion), maybe consider adding some other donation options that are under the 100€ mark.
Regarding the overcrowded pve playfields, well not much you can do there i guess, you can restrict more regarding size or number of bases and stuff but in the end the players need somewhere to put their stuff, so either you have to give them enough space to do so or force them into pvp playfields, which is both a double edged sword in some regard.
Regarding pvp, well cv pvp is just broken right now. However that is more of a empyrion design problem then a server problem, there need to be some fixes, regarding triangle count (so people stop building their whole ships out of pyramide because they have the lowest triangle count but the same armor value then a standard block), some weapon tweaks(damage, allowed number of weapons per class),maybe some speed tweaks based on mass etc. so you could actually build different purpose cvs instead of flying bricks, warp inhibitors or other means of disabling cvs so you can actuall loot them.
It is sad to see that cv pvp right now is just fighting till one person loses all weapons, then said person warps out.
Some balances regarding cv vs sv would be nice too, so you could actually use svs properly in cv fights.
The only other thing right now that bothers me is the golden globe. It is the only source of gold and it is pvp, which is no problem at all. However why you are not allowed to land there with a cv is beyond me, becaise right now you need at least 2 people to get down to the golden globe and away from it (unless you want to park your cv in pvp space), that is not regarding the big factions having bases hvs etc on the planet surface.
That restriction makes it furthermore very hard to organize an actual attack on said forces on the planet surface, because you would have to preproduce all hvs for an attack and bring down all ammunition with svs to load it then into the hvs on the ground, which makes such operations in the primetime nearly impossible,because you would probably be dead before you have even loaded half of your ammunition.
Other then that i like how everything else turned out so far. Hoping for a return of MOBA for the next season though;)
Keep up the great work HWS team.