Requested new features for SE:IV

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I'd like to have the ability to copy Enemy Ship Designs. If you capture an enemy ship, you should be able to select that design and 'copy it' or 'upgrade it' to the latest technology that you have.

yeah, this would be really nice for retrofitting captured enemy ships, or designing out those unrepairable organic weapons & armour.

One thing I'd love to see is a change to the pathifinding routines, so that if a ship's route takes it near a friendly supply depot, it will check to see if it can detour through the depot without expending any extra movement points and, if it can, do so.

Obviously I don't know how much work this alteration would need to implement, but I imagine that it would be fairly minimal, yet it would take a hell of a lot of irritating micromanagement and pointlessly stranded ships out of the game. Perfect final patch material, IMHO.