How bout changing the ship captain skills to be more general so that people can be able to switch ship types, of the same class of course, without having to respec so they are getting the best of any ship of that class.
Possible names for the new skills-
Tier 2 Escort, Tier 3 Science, Tier 4 Cruiser, Tier 5 Carrier, and etc as you can guess.
Basically what I am getting at is if there was a general ship captain skill at the admiral/general levels, people could spec for a specific class (escort, cruiser, science, etc) and have more variety and fun switching out ships for the occasion.
Ex - someone specs for the tier 5 escort skill; they coulf fly the advanced, fleet, and retrofit escorts any time they want; but would need to repsec if they wanted to ship to any other ship, if wanting the full power of that ship.
And I say why not?
You are letting the klingons do it on this upcoming update with the carriers. And you were letting it before with the negh'var and refit vor'cha. As well as the fed's assault and Gal-X cruisers and the nebula and intrepid refits.
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