Soooooo.... I'll take that as a no?

Most likely, you can generally find a couple of completely intact ships in a Debris Field.

If you want a permanent solution, yeah just build a station there. Resupply Ships are intended to be temporary solutions, to allow your fleets to resupply deep in enemy territory.

Or in my case, they are used as Super-Capital Ships that can double as mobile fueling bases.

<t> If the Abandoned ships are damaged enough you need to send a constructor to repair them before you can take control of them. If you have a Constructor repairing the ship then it will automatically take control of the abandoned ship once it is back in semi-working order. But its best to put a ...

Select the ship, and then Rick Click a Gas Giant and there should be the "Deploy at" option.

<r> Soooooooooo DW:Universe is out. So DW development is stopped outside of patches right? You know what that means! It's time for me to post all of my ridiculously long suggestions for the Sequel!<br/>
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So one of the gradual improvements to DW over the expansions I actually have mixed ...

<t> Yeah, I want the option to have 100+ Factions on a single map. I want the Inner Core of the Galaxy to look like the Post-Westphalian Holy Roman Empire.<br/>
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And that isn't possible right now because you cannot start a game with more Factions than you have available Races. I've tried ...

I still just want to be able to set the number of Empires to something greater than the number of playable species. It's kind of silly to expect Humanity to have a Unitary Government. I want a Galaxy with around 150 Empires drawn from the 30 or so Species.

<t> The Facility modding seems extremely limited, essentially allowing for nothing more than producing alternate versions of existing facilities. I was hoping I would be able to implement a sort of "Factory" system where you would have to build planetary facilities that would take in raw materials ...

$100 has been worth it for me, but like others I have spread that cost out over a long period of time. As a single payment now I'm not sure if I could justify it, so If I were just discovering the series today I would just wait for Universe.

For one of the expansions there was a contest for a forum participant to design a monster.
That's where the Silvermist came from.

<r> I never said they weren't important, I said that the relationship is only barely represented.<br/>
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They give you money, they fight in your wars, and you can annex them, that's it.<br/>
You can't fund their development. There's no political interaction other than "We want to annex you ...

To be fair, there isn't a single Grand Strategy game in all of history that has done a truly Good Job of portraying the Vassal-Overlord Relationship. Even CK2 is pretty much just about number crunching Opinion to keep them from rebelling and then going Imprison Happy if they do.

<t> Yeah, that sudden shift is jarring, and it really makes it obvious just how much DW had an existing system (the Warp Age), and Shadows really just tacked a new system (Pre-Warp) onto it without properly making sure they mesh well together.<br/>
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No one knows how easy it will be to modify ...

Not yet, but once Universe comes out we will be able to redesign all of the ship components and tech progression. I'll be adding several new stages to the hyperspace tree to keep early and mid game ranges relatively small, and ships fairly slow.

I will only ever support there being fewer playable species if the game allows you to have more empires than there are species.

<t> I fully understand that the AI might be difficult, but I have.... experience.... dealing with crappy AIs in relation to my ludicrously complicated systems. I am assuming we will be able to apply AI weights to certain buildings, otherwise it would be effectively completely impossible to add new ...

<t> I'm already planning out an entirely new Economic System, which will be far more dependent on Planetary Facilities, where you will have to construct 'buildings' to represent different industrial sectors. I'll need to see if I can control how the buildings collect inputs, and ideally add get some ...

I would add that not only should fighters launch as soon as a hostile target is spotted, but that fighters should periodically launch even in peace time, do a small patrol, and then return to base.

<t> Yeah, according to game rules Resupply Ships aren't supposed to be truly "Military" ships.<br/>
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But that don't stop you from loading them full of Guns using all the extra space. Or Fighter bays, as I tend to do. My Resupply Ships always ride the very max size available, have the very ...