Tally up the costs for all three resources, and add 50% more.
This is an important number since you can only retrofit the ship to designs which have a lower cost than that.
It would be really really neat if you could have it generate an SE4-style graphical result too...
Something like I did for these ships:
http://www.geocities.com/hohoho611ca...ml#ubernaught2
Manually counting component abilities and drawing those with MS paint was a chore, but it turned out so nice.
[ May 21, 2004, 23:40: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]