Been playing the game non stop since release but one thing that has been nagging me a little bit is mid/late game component spam.
So you are in the year 2900 and have unlocked a large amount of the tech tree nearly all tech path has 2-4 variants of the base component and I want to design a new ship only to have to scroll through a gargantuan amount of outdated or unwanted variants I'm never going to use for this race.
What I suggest is a way you can hide or obsolete components from the ship designer with a player driven filter that can simply allow us to mark say missiles as obsolete it will no longer show up in the designer saving space and if at all possible also stop the auto designer using them in a design over your races chosen focus (say if you want to only use energy and ion weapons)
Now I say this is a suggestion if you look at DW1 it had something similar with the auto designs at least where you can set your races focus on certain tech groups but by taking this a little further we can stop the auto designer using the wrong variant of a hyperdrive or engine messing how you want your race to function or work.
Thanks for reading if you got this far
