Designing your ships agains enemy ships is a lot of guess work now.

It would be great if we had a space battle simulator available in game.

You choose your ships and enemy ones and try out what happens.

This helps you better design for battles and try out different strategies.

It would greatly improve QA for battles.


The enemy ship design should not be available automatically.

You have access only to the designs you had a chance to know and I would even limit it to ones that have been "scanned" by a probe.

A second way to get the design is if you have a "Debris analyzer" module installed and this allows you to get designs of destroyed ships.

Maybe we could limit this based on probe levels and levels of the analyzer so that basic ones can only identify tier 1,2,3 modules and the upgraded version can identify tier 4,5 modules?


This would give exploration ships/modules some usage in later game as well as the analyzer modules being more usefull. (the science they give in mid/late game isn't worth the slot)


This should be available by default for everyone or unlocked when you unlock Tier 3 military.

Maybe as a special military building?


In my opinion the Tier 3 military would be the best choice.