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ORIGINAL: Drusek
Also those racial bonuses are also worthless compared to +600% from black hole...

ORIGINAL: Drusek

"DELETE all obsolete unused (with 0 build) designs" button
At the end-game there can be hundreds or even thousand obsolete designs that just slow down loading of designs window (yes, w/o showing those designs)

ORIGINAL: Shark7

A branch of research for the chassis that gives you say a Corvette, PG, Escort to start with and goes up from there, in the following order. This would also be highly beneficial to differentiate the various chasses as each chasses type could have a componant cap based on space available:

PG - Patrol Gunboat. Smallest ship capable of performing the system patrol mission. 100 Componant Space -20% cost
FFL- Corvette. Slightly larger than the PG, Able to perform a similar mission for a higher cost. 150 Componant Space. -10% cost
FF - Frigate. Standard Frigate, 200 Componant Space. Base Cost
DE - Destroyer Escort. Fills the escort roles of the fleet. 250 Component Space. +10% Cost
DD - Destroyer. 300 Component space. +20% cost
CL - Light Cruiser. 350 Component space. +30% Cost
CA - Heavy Cruiser. 400 Component space. + 40% cost
CB - Large Cruiser. 450 Component Space. + 50% cost
BC - Battle Cruiser. 500 Component Space. + 60 % cost
BB - Battleship. 550 Component Space. + 70% cost
BBB- Super Battleship. 600+ Component Space. +80% cost

Obviously, the larger it is, the more expensive it is. And not just from components added...there should be a modifier for price on each chasses type that makes building all Super Battleships next to impossiblt. I'd say make the frigate the base at 0% modifier with the FFL being a -10% and PG being -20%, and starting at DE up, 10% incrase each level. This cost modifier applies ot the base costs and component costs, reducing or increasing the overall cost...Basically, a BBB with the exact same components as a FF will cost 80% more.

You could also introduce a fighter class with a series of Carrier Classes. this would probably require some new components as well.

Carrier types:

CVE - Escort Carrier. Light Carrier, small number of fighters.
CVL - Light Carrier. ~33% larger than CVE.
CVA - Attack Carrier. ~66% larger than CVE.
CV - Fleet Carrier. ~99% larger than CVE.
CVB - Large Fleet Carrier ~133% larger than CVE.
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ORIGINAL: Okim
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It would also be great if ships would pick freighters/miners to escort by value of their cargo. Once again i saw multiple times how escorts were following small freighters with some abundant resource that is not even in demand while ignoring other ships with more valuable cargo that is in high demand. Extremely rare luxury resources should be a high priority for escorts because they are rare, they cost much, they are badly-needed and provide a huge bonus for development.