shipbuilding

Suggestion: option to 'fleet' any station as a one-entity fleet, and order that fleet to patrol a specified radius with specified numbers of selected ship types. Patrol action would take the form of the 'fleet' spawning ships per user specifications, drawing resources from on-site storage...

I've never built any big ships before, and I'm not sure how big I want this ship to be. I want it to be decent at everything. I also want to have some cannon/beam and missile/beam turrets all with the punch-through effect, but that's about all I know. Is having turrets with missiles as primary a...