The shiplist is something that has been argued about for almost four years now. The simple fact of the matter is that no matter how it is designed, *some* people will have gripes with it.
I'm not trying to shoot your idea down or anything, it's just that I think it is a bit late to be making any major changes now. On top of that, the modellers have been working on making the models for quite some time now, and it would be unfair to simply drop some of the models that they have made.
...However, even if we do have what seems to be an enormous shiplist, we actually have a ton of "Z" models saved in sharepoint as well - these are ships that people either really wanted in the game but aren't actually in the shiplist, or we managed to acquire them at the same time as models that we needed. And this isn't just for the Federation, we have an extra models section for all the races.
Supremacy is going to be a highly moddable game, which is why we are building this catalogue of extra ships. People will be able to download as many of the extra ships as they want - they could download all of them if they wanted. But it will also be possible to remove ships. It is/was literally as simple as pressing the delete key on the entry of the ship you don't want while you're in the editor. (This feature wasn't working in the last working version of the editor, but it was working before then)
Of course, you will have to be careful about simply deleting ship entries - the game might become a bit difficult if you were to delete colony ships!
I'm sure people will start making their own mods as well in the future - these may do exactly what you want, or you could even request that *someone* makes it for you. Once the game is complete, we will likely create a new forum section for mod requests and the like. We will also come up with modding guides as well, just like they have done over the years for BOTF.
Don't worry, the game will eventually work exactly the way that YOU want it to. It is specifically designed to be moddable to avoid all the problems that BOTF had. And if we were to come across any mod problems, we even have the game developer ready to help...
) is spreading out the advances in ships and reducing the types of ships that can be built. That way when, for example, you go from the Ambassador to the Galaxy, you can only build the Galaxy-class, yet you'll likely have a pretty large number of Ambassadors still in service.
Small yards can build scouts and science vessels. They have one construction/repair slot.
