YES!!

Looking forward to this one

<t> This really bothers me too, it's hard to recognize the classes of ships in a fight without individually checking because they're all so similar.<br/>
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If we go into the design and change the scale, will that change be maintained for future versions/designs of the same class? For example ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ceyan<br/>
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..If you're rolling in cash then go ahead and build one per system but by default the designs used by the AI are pretty expensive on maintenance and will cost you more than they will earn you until the colony is pretty large. Unfortunately you ...

<t> Alright well I'll hold off on building so many space ports then. I was thinking about using defensive bases to ward off pirate raids, but maybe it's cheaper to put a small fleet in orbit.. the only problem with that being that I'll have to manually choose a time to refit them since, when I ...

<t> A question for you experienced folk:<br/>
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I have been building one starport per system colonized. Is there a good reason not to do this?<br/>
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* disclaimer - I prefer not to design ships or bases since the AI does not get this advantage and I don't like the micro.<br/>
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I ...

Excellent game! Loving every minute of it.. so fully realized

So, when will we get the eye candy to back it up? I imagine there's a lot of money to be made down that path..