I've seen many posts like "Why can't I see my custom ship in my game? I didn't put any components on it" The reason is that each ship class has an inherent miniaturization associated with it. What we really need is the ability to create custom hulls-- templates of just hulls and jewelry that we can then use as a starting point for any ship. I've done some of this, by creating empty hulls at start up and saving them with the prefix X- I then use these designs as quick starts. However, my medium, large, and huge designs rarely get reused. Either they are missing some tech, or they are obsolete when I'm ready to build them.
Wouldn't it be much better to be able to save off a hull and jewelry as a template, that could be used at any tech level, assuming you could build that base hull size?
--Brad