Now, yes, it's exactly as it sounds: Some indicators for things going on in your ship.
Now, I'm not talking anything big, I mean something that would fit into the world. A small gritty light that'd flicker on when your engines are fully healed and moving at max speed, a Dusty compass tied to the bar that held up your acceleration disk, and maybe even a small map of... well, the map you're on, but without the ships or anything. Just an average map.
I'm thinking about this mainly as a Roleplay thing. Preferably you could turn off your UI map and compass and the in-game helm map and compass would be appear. Also an option to have the engine light of your helm. As I enjoy having the feeling of almost being in the game I'm playing, if I usually like to imagine it being real.
Another great thing would be a gear-clock thing on empty walls on your ship *In places like the Junker or Galleon basement* that showed the current notch your captain is on with the acceleration wheel.
Again, all of these could be turned off.