[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by tbontob:
In real life a mothballed ship cannot be upgraded. If you upgrade it, it can no longer be mothballed.

Why exactly? There is absolutely no reason to why it would be necessary to pay a full crew to man a ship at combat readiness while you are ripping out its guts and entirely replacing.

Personally, I do not think it is unethical to exploit something in a game that is impossible in real life.

Then we should also not be flying around between star systems in the game, and should never build a single starship.