quote:Originally posted by Repo Man: Sixth: Old equipment: It would be kind of neat if the old equipment was still around after an upgrade. The old equipment could be sold/given/traded to other empires, or kept as a reserve for emergencies.
quote:Originally posted by Taqwus: 6) Hrrrrm, can of wyrms; it'd require allowing components to remain in planetary inventories, and that seems a tad problematic in terms of added MM (getting rid of old stuff to free space). I'm fine for now with the excuse that yanking weapons and armor off a ship is hard to do non-destructively.
I think it also works to say the components are really totally removed and replaced. Maybe they only swap out certain bits and pieces.