[Drake]

It's because SEIV can't handle a component being removed permanently after use - destroyed under the current design is the next best thing I suppose. So many things could be handled better in the game if a component were 'removed' completely. You'd either have to create a new ship type for all the ships with removed components, or you'd have to rework how ship types are stored, I'd guess. Probably the former makes things too confusing and the latter would be to difficult to change at this time. Hard to say for sure, but that's my guess as to why it's the way it is. Of course, everything could just be that way because that's the way they wanted it, who knows... *shrug*

[This message has been edited by Drake (edited 18 March 2001).]