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For instance, if there were a "stealth" hull type that hid the ship class for a substantial cost...
How about copying all of the ship hulls in vehiclesize.txt, setting the names to "?", and the pictures all the same (empty starfield?). Require "super stealth tech" or racial trait.
Then every ship you build would be identical to outsiders. Your colony ships would look the same as dreadnaughts, and if clicked, be "?"
Just make your design names "?", "? ", "? ", etc
Then, on the strategic map, your enemy will see only:
Type: ?
Class: ?
All you have to do, is put a sensor jammer on your ships so they can't tell the difference by looking at components!
You could really scare somebody by sending a huge fleet of escorts into his space after fighting with mostly dreadnaughts
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I like the idea of different style ships, but, can't we already do some of that now with what we have? Example take a CA load up on weapons, no armor or shields, more weapons but also more vunerable, etc
Check out P&N. My dad always plays with weak, wimpy, superfast ships. I like to build lumbering superfortresses
It all evens out in the end.