[tesco samoa]

I agree. The ship is mothballed and not crewed.

It still takes a turn to unmothball the ship and costs resources.

I just feel it is logical to build tons and tons of ships and if you cannot afford to keep them around mothball them.

A classic example of this would be fighting two different types of races.

Race a is organic and constantly builds ships with organic armor maxed out
Race b is a missle / fighter / psychic race.

You build BB ships with crews and Armor skipping weapons to fight Race A.

You build PDC and Master computer and quick fire DF weapons ships to fight Race B

Your At war with Race A so you moth ball your Race B attack ships and build ships to Race A.

Mean while you have just researched MC 2 so you upgrade your mothballed ships... ANd every time you get an up grade you upgrade those ships.

After a while Race A and you agree on a treaty so you mothball about 75% of your fleet and unmothball 25% of your Race B fleet.

Then you just keep building ships for both fleets, mothballing those you cannot afford to keep around and upgrading them when you need to.

That my friend is how to use the mothball and retrofit to its proper use.

It also allows you to max out your spending.

Warning.

Make sure you have enough resources stored to unmothball ships when you need them. And then some extras to have them go about 4 to 5 turns while continueing to build at current rates.