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I haven't ever bothered with fleet and ship training facilities, but I get the impression from others these are a must have feature??
Given a free +20 attack and defense modifier, yes.
Purchasing that large a modifier in your race characteristics would cost 2000 RP.
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I am trying to use someone elses pictures, (B5 ships) not too bothered about fancy mods etc. Not quite sure how to do it. I have copied B5 pictures into a new race file on the main game in the pictures directory "Earth alliance" it didn't have the 6 or so .txt files so I copied the ones out of "Terran" and renamed them.
Yep, that should work.
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What I want to be able to do is start a new game, add a "New" empire, set all the characteristics up how I like but just use the pictures of Narn, Minbari etc for their ships, otherwise standard game.
The game might randomly choose one of those shipsets for the AIs, but that usually isn't a concern for people.
If you want to ensure only the original races get added, only add the extra race that you will be choosing. SE4 won't choose a clone of your race for the AI, and once the game is started, you can re-add the other fancy shipsets.