I love this idea of fleet experience being tied to a flagship. That could be an option at game startup, and possibly set values for number of ships per flaship and maximum number of flagships there as well.
A couple of questions, though. What minimum number of ships would be necessary to build a flaghip? (Could I make the first ship I build a flagship, or what I actually need to mass a fleet first?) Also, if the number of available flagships is tied to total number of ships (i.e. 0-49 ships = 0 flagships, 50-99 = 1 flagship, etc.), would non-warships be included in this total?
I can see pros and cons to each question, so I leave these to the powers of consensus.
Quikngruvn
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