Im thinking kind of along the lines of the ships in Eve online.

i also lke the idea and i think there should be 2 types for each race, 1 for combat and 1 for heavy support.

Emm - cap ships, you mean?

i really like the idea of a mother ship too, it would add a new strategy to gameplay. i also like the idea of what PR-0927 said about not having a limit but making it very difficult to get more than one. but i wouldnt want it to be unstopable because then its just a race to see who can get one first. i think a cool feature to add would be boarding. you may think this has nothing to do with the mother ship but to me it makes sense. say you dont want to spend all your resources on one ship, so you wait for your enemy to buy one. then you send your ships up and try to take the ship, this way you dont have to destroy somthing very valuable. now you would probly have to add some new feature to the tech tree, like how well you train the men on board your ships, maybe it would make the the ships do more damage and move faster, that way you could get close enough to board without getting destroyed right away. then you could send your men onto the mother ship and try to capture it. or maybe put them on a sabatage mission, take out the engine room or the guys running it, that way it would be immobilized for the duration of the battle. this could be used on any ship not just the mother ship. but its not based on prabability, its based on how well your men are trained and how many you choose to go on the mission. i also think you should be able to board with several ships at a time otherwise it would be immpossible to take the mother ship. but somewhat of a risk is involved when you board their ship that means that they can take your ship if your men arnt well trained, that way its more important to make you sure you use the right amount of men when you board.

thanks for reading my idea, i hope i didnt bore you too much lol. bye.

While I don't oppose the idea of a superbattleship in the game, I think that the basic concept of a "mothership" being the core of a fleet of smaller vessels is what the designers had in mind with the capital ship. Of course, players go and bunch up their capitals... just as they would do with their motherships, if available.

I find that in games with "heroes" or super weapons they end up spending most of their time drawing enemy fire. Consider a mothership that not only has super-weapons but also or instead is able to withstand considerable damage before being destroyed. Also consider the motherships being able to repair all of her damaged ships in a given gravity well once every three to five minutes of game play. Another option is motherships can teleport ships from another gravity well to assist her. A mothership may also increase the training level of all or some capitol ships in the gravity well as long as she is in the same gravity well. They could also cause a lower level planet or asteroid to automatically change allegance to that race. There are many options to just super armor and weapons. Use your imagination and see what you can come up with.

Il take 1 nidhoggur and 1 hel please il settle for a nyx too or a phoenix.   

I think capital ships are epic enough, to be honest.

You can't keep adding bigger ships to a game, or you just end up with a fleet of absolutely giant ships. The point of capital ships is for them to function as the core of the fleet, hence the "flagship" title on your first one. I personally think they should buff capital ships slightly, and lower the amount available (definitely, 16 is too many), but we do *not* need more big ships. To me, a Kol leading a fleet of LRM frigates and heavy cruisers seems pretty epic.

This topic has been discussed more times in the past than I would care to remember. It was given a staunch "not now and probably not later" in each one.