ORIGINAL: Data

No, you can indeed upgrade directly from any size to any size. I regularly downgrade my initial medium SP to a small SP when I start a game.

How?!

How do I know how much energy my ship needs to operate?

If you are talking about small to medium to large starport, I don't think it is possible without scraping the station first.  But you should be able to upgrade it to a newer design if it is the same type.

I never experience that either. Perhaps it is because I always take out pirate bases ASAP, but ya.

Good thing I wanted to use mainly missiles before realizing how much better they are compare to others.  So being overpowered won't ruin it for me.  But only build captial ships seem a bit boring.  Hopefully they will fix this?

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You're right. And also, the same reasoning for missiles worked for torps back in the day when there were no missiles and beam weapons were clearly less effective compared to torps.
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