I love the idea of researching ships organically along with ship refits but there have been playthroughs where I wasn't able to get the ship I wanted in time before the next era of ships came about. Same can be said for refits. Didn't get them all and then I had to push onto the next era. I had a game looking for a certain ship bu the research option roll took so long that by the time I realized it, I had to give picard command of the the connie enterprise since I couldn't roll the right design earlier.


-I thought about it and wondered if it were possible to implement a institution dedicated to purchasing ship designs and refits? Kinda like the museum where you see different ship classes and can recommission older classes, but this way allows you to purchase ship designs and refits outright. So that way any you may have missed you could purchase them. Would also help free up the research slot for other research you need.

-Or if not that, how about making the ship designs for 1 era, all in one research option. Like for example. All the ships that pertain to the enterprise era, grouped up into 1 research option. Maybe balanced with costs and time but it would give you all the ships in that era as a start without researching all the hulls separately. All in one convenient research option. That way you don't lose out on research options that you would have postponed researching ship designs.

And for refits I thought about something like this.

Starting with Enterprise Era ships

Era 1----Era 2----refit Mk 1----etc

*Era 1 is the enterprise era. Good starting point.

*Era 2 is now discovery ships.

*Refit MK I which is the now the enterprise era ships but refitted to appear similar to the discovery ships.

So to make it easier, after you finish researching a more advance era, you also unlock a refit research option of the previous era's shipset for the newer era you just researched. (museum would still advise you to retire the old ships but like in base new civilizations you can recommission or set the option to manually retire ships.)

So for example, you have the yorktown class, research discovery era and then you get the nelson refit option shortly after. Research the tos era and you get the Rochambeau refit option shortly after. And finally you get the tng era, and shortly after you get the option for the Cornwallis refit. Apply this to the rest of the enterprise shipset, and apply this to all the other eras of ships and thats pretty much it.


That's what I thought of. I love this mod but getting the right ships and refits at the right time is tough. And with the way rolls work, not really lucky either. Just my 10 cents.