Trifler500

The ship designer is a handy thing to have, but it definitely needs a slider for Engines. Maybe a slider for range too.

For a while during beta we were able to play the original campaign and the Dark Avatar campaign from within the Twilight campaign menu, but I'm not able to do that anymore. Any chance this could be restored?

It's more simple than you're making it. In other games ships have Hull HP, Armor HP, and Shield HP. In this game, you have Hull HP and that's it. The Armor, Shields, and ECM that you add are damage deflectors, not added HP. Armor deflects Projectile damage, Shields deflect Energy damage, and ECM deflects missile damage. So, if they're using shields, you want to use projectiles or missiles, because your lasers will be deflected most of the time.

When I design a ship and give it a name that has a space in it, such as "Quick Colonizer", the name shows up properly for the duration of the game, but as soon as the game is restarted, the space is removed and shows up as "QuickColonizer". This happens with any ship name I have with a space in it. I tried editing the .shipclass file in a text editor but that just crashes the game when it tries to start, so I am unable to correct this problem manually.