Space - Glory Through Conquest/Ship design

Ship design plays a major part of the game: Each ship class has a certain number of "slots" available, players can freely choose how many slots to devote to various aspects of the ship such as hull, shield, engines, sensors, stealth and various weapon types. Through research bigger ship classes with more slots can be unlocked, though all ship classes offer certain bonuses to a fleet if enough ships of a particular class is present, so a mixed fleet is often preferable to a fleet based on a single ship design.