[Phoenix-D]

"Then you might have some races that would only research standard ships up to cruisers and not go any further with standard ships."

Oh, I've already done that. That's why I didn't want to split it any further. It's already split into Escorts, Cruisers, Capital Ships, and Starships. So before when I had split tech, I had "Advanced Capital Ship Construction". I've managed to shorten it a bit, but I've already got a LOT of tech areas. Ah well.

I thint the prototype idea will work for the components though, thanks. SE4 doesn't do replacement of obselte hulls, so I don't want to do that on hulls.. too much clutter. The level I hulls are already bad enough.

As an example, I've got an improvement tech for the Meson BLaster and (new weapon) Havoc Beam. It's called Meson Disintigrators. To get Meson BLaster IV-VI, you have to research this first. You can still research up the tech, but it won't do you much good.

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