The idea that seems a bit frustrating to me while creating a faction is being locked into a specific ship model per faction race. It would be nice to be able to select the faction type "Imperials" or what not which would effect the quests, then select a ship model that could effect how the faction colonizes and some of the research to gain access to stronger ships. Such as if you have arks or not. Say you are a faction of humans (imperials) who have been lost in a flotila in space. The arks would fit that kind of game play.


So in short, the idea is to seperate the Ship Model from the Faction 'Race' so you can have different appearances that better fit the story behind your custom faction... (or perhaps you simply want 'cooler' looking ships.)


This would be nice even if it was implimented as an 'Official' MOD so it could be optional for those of us wishing to have this feature.