Fleet Only Race

[yandonman]

What would a fleet only race look like? (such as the Quarian of Mass Effect: http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Quarian)

[Geoff the Medio]

If this is to be a regular playable species, they'd need some mechanism to generate production and research points, which isn't presently possible with just ships. It's been a longstanding idea to have resource center ships, but it's not implemented yet. There could be workarounds with effects, since one can create ships with an effect, but this wouldn't be well supported by the UI compared with the standard production system. But in principle, if support for resource generating and constructor ships are added, a ships-only species or play style should work fine...