Agreed. I am trying to think of a way to eliminate the flagship altogether.

i will third it

I'd like anomalies to be a different beast entirely. Have them constantly spawn in (at a slow rate, of course), making survey ships useful for the entire game. It'd actually make things like the galactic guidebook more useful.

That's exactly how I thought anomalies worked when I first got the game. Then I realized that once your survey ship says it's out of targets, you never need a survey sensor again.

A few ideas were thrown around some time ago. Best was big battles leaving debris/anomalies.
And yes, the initial flagship does go against the rules, which is very lame. That should be another "strategic" option; if you want to go for the anomalies' money early, research sensors. Rush-buying doesn't help either, you need money for that, and the best source the game offers initially is anomalies. The game has a too fast start IMO, and these things are there to promote it.

I would like the option of doing this, but I also like the quick start that the flagship offers.

I'm with Glitch! Having at least a choice of starting "level" would be nice. Then you can start with or without a survey ship, and possibly with or without an initial colony ship and miner. I think it would make it more challenging with this type of set-up.

Simply mod GC2ships.xml to remove the survey module from the survey ship, and you're set.

In this thread, a couple of us were talking about anomolies.

It would be cool if there were different "levels" of anomolies. The sesnsor techs could be expanded (and made more expensive?) that allow for the ability to detect and survey different levels of anomolies.

So a level 2 sensor lets you SEE level 2 anomolies, and a level 2 surveyor (available after lelve 2 sensors) would let you survey a level 2 anomoly.


This would give a much longer life to the "anomoly hunt" and also present the choice of whether to bother doing the research and creating the ships!

Can you remove the survey/flag ship itself?

It is a medium hull, and you don't have that tech either. It also has advanced support, which you also don't have. In fact, you don't have almost all of the techs.

Two answers!

I first removed the flag ship from the listing, the game crashed.

I then removed only the survey scanner, no surveying available.

So the flag ship is expected by the program. All you can do is elliminate the feature. Now I'm going to retype a different discription for it so it doesn't say it can survey and won't. Still, if there's a way around removing the flag ship I'ld like to know how as well.