[Taera]

The way i design ships for my own racestyles (not too many though) is go to the game, pick some powerful race, look at it's designs. Then design a counter design to it. Then to modify the DesignCreation. Then to modify the research tech tree to optimize the speed at which the AI reaches the tech.
This way i was the first one to actually find out the power of ID against most ships. My first Taera Versions never were too popular and then the Aquilane (sp?) racestyle came out utilizing the tech to its full.

Same way was the poorly managed TechnoLogic. Their designs are in fact just great, just the overall AI is lacking.

Also given the ability of SEIVG to specify the exact type of the ship to create, combinations of various designs could be created in appropiate numbers.

Anyway, hope you see my point.

Andrey.