An idea I had for the next patch that would be pretty fun and a real convience to everyone:

From the main menu have an extra option called the "Ultimate Star Dock" or some such, and inside place all the races hulls and ship pieces in the game avaialabe for starship creation (with starship jewlery seperated by race of course so you can actualy play with them)

This would allow everyone that's just feeling like creating starships for a race, or to premake the ships for their next game to do so relatively simplly without having to keep a save file of each race with all tech researched to do so.

Another concept in addition to this would be a check box to designate a created ship as one of a races prefered ship desgins so when they are played against they will build and use that particular ship when possible. (can make for some fun themed race & fleet wars)