supplies are needed to build ships (they are things such as tricorders) and you start with a set amount of them and you can only get more by spending huge amounts of dilithium and tritanium

thanks for that    

About a new feature, how about Warp Drive?

Instead of a horribly abused and unstrategic Warp Drive in A2- Standard- here is my proprosed-

25 pts special energy to start
Once warping, you may only travel in a straight line. Maybe 5 or even 10 pts energy\sec.

Ships coming out of warp need 1 or 2 secs to regain shields and weapons

Shields and weapons are disabled during warp

If a ships engines are disabled during warp the ship blows immidiatley.

Ships may not warp through nebula

These restrictions should balance it out more. In Armada 2 it really ruined the strategy so I truly hope this would not do the same. Comments please.  

not only that, if your ships eingins blow if they are disables in warp, you just have sovies with a high special weapon antaomy blowing all warp ships up that go past.

I did not know it was dangerous in-sector. I knew earlier drives damaged subspace from repeated use, yet...

Well, What if only large ships got the warp drive? What if it was a refit for any ship (say 200 di 200 tri).

And Eufnoc, that wound be why you wouldn't warp into a base with lots of sovies... hell, any heavily defended base.