I think a good way to balance the freedom that comes with the new designer and making the game approachable for new players would be to have a better set of standard buildings/ships that would cover a high percentage of new players' needs. Just having "official" basic buildings of various sizes, like 10/20/50/100 up to 1k for factories, 10k for apartments, and 10/20/50/100 for farms/mines would be a big help for new players who would otherwise be overwhelmed by the number of options in the building exchange.
Similar idea for ships. A few basic ships, ranging from a 1,000 m^3 shuttle to a 1,000,000 m^3 capital ship, and would by default have one weapon/harvester, and the option of having shields/transporters or not. Maybe my harvester doesn't need a shield, and maybe the Ioplasma in my home system is low quality and I want to harvest a ton of it from a neighboring system before I build any ship with transporters. Also this has probably been stated before, but we should be able to change which weapon or FTL module we're using without deallocating all the space for it, removing the station for that module, and adding another. That's something I frequently wanted to do with the ships from the exchange.
On a side note, is there any way to get the buildings from the online game's exchange into Hazeron Starship?
Similar idea for ships. A few basic ships, ranging from a 1,000 m^3 shuttle to a 1,000,000 m^3 capital ship, and would by default have one weapon/harvester, and the option of having shields/transporters or not. Maybe my harvester doesn't need a shield, and maybe the Ioplasma in my home system is low quality and I want to harvest a ton of it from a neighboring system before I build any ship with transporters. Also this has probably been stated before, but we should be able to change which weapon or FTL module we're using without deallocating all the space for it, removing the station for that module, and adding another. That's something I frequently wanted to do with the ships from the exchange.
On a side note, is there any way to get the buildings from the online game's exchange into Hazeron Starship?