so colony pods don't stack? didn't know that. I'll have to check that out in the demo (getting the game in a few weeks on my B-Day)

The one thing I don't like with core designs is that if you upgrade them, while choosing to keep their jewelry, none of original functional parts is seen on the ship, since everything you see on core designs, even supposed functional parts are jewelry while functional parts are invisible.

So if I make upgraded colony ship and remove old pod, when you add pod again you'll see 3 colony pods.

Same for freighters of constructors.
And that is the part that annoys me the most, since that how AI ships look like.

Every time I see AI constructor or freighter with misplaced cargo and constructor pods, at righ flank, with only jewelry duplicate being at right place, I'm disgusted, it just looks ugly.

bump...

I am not bumping old threats needlessly, I am bumping BUG REPORTS that have NOT been resolved. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's a resolved bug. If I accidently bumped a FIXED bug then by all means let me know and ill take it off my watch list.

This one is the LEAST important "bug" I found, so small that its barely a bug but is still of some significance. The default colony ship comes with a bunch of empty space and very poor configuration, that makes the AI weaker compared to a player. And players start with sub par initial colony ships

Every NEW player uses the basic designs, at least until they get better tech. Besides the core designs are meant to be PRETTY as you said, so why make them absolutely useless so that they will NEVER EVER be seen? in fact I have to go and obsolute every single core ship on every single game cause each one is absolutely and utterly useless, and I scrap or upgrade every single starting ship because those are useless too (since they are core design). Whats the point of those designs then? They are not just "simplistic" they are EMPTY. they are a pretty ship with a BUNCH of empty space going to waste. At least outfit a ship with a full compartment of items. The example I gave with the colony ship is just ONE example. And I gave two much better designs for that, both of which are as simple as filling up that empty space with useful stuff. Not groundbreaking ideas, just equipping the ships with equipment, its not a novel idea or anything groundbreaking.