[iaen]

I read in the chat transcripts that ship design is going to be like in starfury, dragging components onto a template. It would give some interesting options if you could have large components taking up several spaces. Huge cargobays, hangars with extra bonusses, maybe some of the stellar manipulation components too.

A problem would be the fact that the components on a ship aren't neccesarily aligned in a square grid. (The way the standard starfury ships are.) In starfury you can easily make a ship with a honeycomb style component layout.