oh and any combat tips? I don't have an intuitive understanding of combat at all and it's an interesting (but painful) situation where you design and build a lot of X, only to then discover a new technology and think to yourself : well is X something I should scrap in order to upgrade? given that they are only 6 design slots total. I'm emulating the AI a little and so I'm making: a shit load of Small 1x Laser ships, a decent amount of Medium ships with good computers, armor, shields, Laser and Missile, and then just some huge ass ships that have it all and take years to make one of them