Slick, Ruatha, I understand your concerns but there is no harm in making such a set for single player purposes.
If anyone tried to play PBW like this, other players would either object before the game began (since they'd have to download shipset.) or just substitute the black set for a conventional one, renaming all the files so that the game thought it was the "real" one.
Images should be in .bmp format, 128x128 for portraits, 36x36 minis and 20x20 for the pop_mini. Not sure about shields and things.
I'd be interested to see how small this shipset zipped down to - I reckon you could get well over 95% compression on plain black images
[ January 15, 2003, 16:09: Message edited by: dogscoff ]