Question: Favourite Ship Type

[PvK]

One way to not overpower a crafting ship would be to give it an ability or two that is crafting-related, but not as good as an expert crewman with the same ability, and not stacking with it. So it would help if you hadn't fully specialized and trained up a set of crafting officers, but it wouldn't make you even better than you can now possibly get with crafting.

[Waltorious]

Originally Posted by OrionM42

As Waltorious (above) pointed out to me, once you unlock a ship-class in one game, you have access to it in ALL later games you play; although not right at the beginning of a game.

Just wanted to clarify this... you DO get access to it at the start of a new game. You just have to scroll right when choosing ships. You should see a bunch that you haven't unlocked yet, but the ones you have unlocked will be available there, and you can start the game with them.