Hello there,
I have been planning a Star Wars vehicle mod for the upcoming Vehicles Framework by Smash Phil. I'll describe the current plans, followed by some of the design decisions and problems needed to be addressed in these early stages of development.
I though that having a more organized location to discuss this would be good. If you want to discuss the mod and the development of this add-on/expansion you're welcome to join the Starflight Creative Discord.
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1845423808

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1998482858

Feature Plans:
-A chronological research path covering ships from the High and Galactic Republic(Pre-Ep. I) , through to the Final Order(Ep. IX). This ensures an increase in power/capability over time and enables for Scenario starts to be dropped in for a specific period or faction, restricting the vehicles for that era.
- The Concept Tech Tree has over 200 ships and vehicles (limited to 50m in diameter) but includes future Landspeeders and Aquatic vehicles, all arranged by their respective manufacturers.
-The Beta release I’m aiming for will include all Incom Corporation, Kuat Drive Yards, Sacul Industries and Koensayr Manufacturing ships, totaling to about 38.
-Ships will be constructed using SW manufacturer specific and generic parts.
-Ships that are destroyed will leave a wreck that can be scavenged/deconstructed to yield these components/parts. Combined with rarity factors and junk traders this will make for a fun scavenging economic to find just the right parts for your ship.
-The Beta release will include an experimental Dry Dock system where the ships will be constructed allowing for greater recipe freedom and fun things like under construction ship visuals.
-All of this is being worked towards an early beta, you can follow the progress on this Trello page https://trello.com/b/VMykVKCi/srts-star-wars-worksheet; I am fully open to ideas, suggestions and constructive critique.:)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2296239419
X-Wing evolution as they will be unlocked through tech progression.

Design decisions, let me know what your thoughts are on these:
-SW Mod Dependencies: I’m fairly sure I’ll want to make use of Outpost 21’s Outer Rim framework to spare me a lot of trouble. Not having faction and tech incompatibilities or duplicates with these mods would be great. Future scenario's could use on Jango D’soul’s JDS Star Wars mod, dependent on what Factions the Outer Rim framework introduces.
I am not fully comfortable with making this add-on thing dependable on multiple mods, though. What are people’s thoughts on dependencies?
-Production: Ship manufacturing in SW is a recourse and tech-heavy business. You either buy from manufactures (Empire, First Order) or cobble together ships from scrap (Rebels, Resistance, pretty much most outer-rimmers).
My idea is to use a ‘ship-parts’ system, like the one used in Battletech. The parts themselves could be scavenged, from shipwrecks or traded, perhaps in some cases made by yourself at a high cost. Many SW ships have canon monetary values to which ship part value can be linked.
In the end I have gone with:

-Manufacturer specific parts for ship building: ae. A TIE/sa Bomber would require ‘5 Sienar Fleet Systems parts’.
This will make for an economy where ships from Manufacturers with many different ship types and models would be easier to produce and procure. The economy will favor these parts, regardless of ship use. Rarer and more niche ships manufacturer parts would be harder to come by. Rarer, older (High Republic) and overpowered ships will use additional rare tech to unlock and build.

-Research: the idea is that you acquire the knowledge to build the ship types, not so much design them yourselves. The planned research tree is chronological and Manufacturer based and currently includes prototypes for most big lines where possible (ae. TIE-advanced, Blade Wing Prototype), which doesn’t fully make sense in this mind-set or in lore. Is this something people would like?
As this manufacturer-based progression system is not ideal at guiding players through what path leads to what ships I'll strongly reccomend players use a tech-tree mod to make full use of their search functions and the detailed descriptions of the ships/technodes.

-Workflow: This is something I will probably have to work out myself but there are two options:
I am implementing one ship line at the time having to only make the different adjustments between models, making for a faster workflow but incomplete and fractured faction rosters for a long time.


Current ships (partially)implemented:
T47 Airspeeder, T47 Snowspeeder,
R22 Spearhead, RZ-1 A-Wing, RZ-2 A-Wing
Detla-6, Delta-7, Detla-7B, Eta-2 and Alpha-3
BTL-B Y-Wing, BTL-S3 Y-Wing, BTL-A4 Y-Wing, BTL-NR2 Y-Wing
UT-60 U-Wing, BT45 U-Wing
StarSpeeder 1000 and 3000 And Star Commuter 2000.
Z95 AF-3, AF-4 and Clone variants.
T-65B, T-65C A2, T-70 and T-85X-Wings.
Rainhawk-Class and Firespray-31-Class.
LAAT, LAAT C and LAAT/Le
T-16 Skyhopper
X34 Landspeeder
SS-54 Assault ship(two variants)

WIP Techtree v0.012:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2501555349