I would like to have the possibility to save certain ship configurations. As soon as I have all the necessary technologies such a saved ship type should show up in the list of ships i can build.



After having played dozens of games it has become annoying to design the same ship type over and over again. Such a feature would make multiplayer games much quicker as the other players would not have to wait for people who are creating new ships.



What do you think?

Signed - I hope the programmers will implement that feature!

I agree this would be really time saving.

However, how do you deal with tech trees ? Would design appears once you've unlocked the proper tech ?



Would it be better to have ship templates instead (like kinetic destroyer, balanced dreadnought or troops carrier) ? In fact, that would be complicated to handle and you'd loose

creativity when it comes to ship design (relying only on a few you've done a few times and be done with it).

I would also like some ship presets. I think the tech tree issue could be circumvented by setting module priorities rather than specific designs.



E.g., for an invasion ship, you could set your priorities as:



[LIST=1]

Tonnage

Repair

Armor, Max 1

Missile Defense, Max 2

Laser Defense, Max 2

Kinetic Defense, Max 2

Troops, to tonnage cap

Siege Weapons, to tonnage cap

[/LIST]



In this manner your ship would prioritize defense without going overboard and using up all the tonnage. It would employ siege weapons only if troops were unavailable.*



I think this could work. It's worth considering, in any case.





I would also like to see a way to save game presets. I may decide there are a certain set of widely varying galaxy and opponent sets I like and want to have on hand. This seems like a fairly trivial thing to implement as it's a static set of variables (@devs, don't hate me for calling any part of your work trivial; I just mean in comparison to the ship preset concept).





*I make no claim that this is an optimal design for a siege ship. I literally started playing last week.

The problem isn't saving the data for the ships, it is programming the interface to load & use those presets. That takes a lot more time and effort.



(Optimal design suggestion for siege ship depends on your plans for taking over things. Generically though, max elite troop modules + max siege or just max siege is pretty reasonable (on a destroyer frame)).

Id like there to be pre-set ships available to the player at the beginning and through out the game to use as a kind of standard example of what any particular era of ships should be designed like.



Almost like a default template for the player to use or redesign to help new players (And extremely bad ones like me) to know how we should be designing our ships.



I personally, have great difficulty with this.