Re: Realistic unit building
 

as for a library of ship designs, you can save a race after having played it for a while, and have all your designs and settings saved with it. if you want that to work with any race, you can enable your ship design minister or turn on the auto-ship-design-whatever and have the AI design them for you. you can then edit the AI design file for your race, or make a 'player design file' and associate it with any races you create.

Re: Realistic unit building
 

Regarding re-using ship designs, it'd be nice to see a "Downgrade" button that, for every currently unavailable component, would downgrade it to the most advanced Version available, or list a Warning about that specific component if no such Version at all was available. That way, one could keep the hi-tech Versions from finished game, ditch the obsolete ones, and then in the next downgrade followed by periodic upgrades when new tech is found.

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