So the race creation is basic, you chose a basic colour pallet, a basic ship flavour, and it's kind of meh. You can make your own race proper with XML editing, but for the average person it's not worth it.

Why not make an in game creator that allows you to fine tune the colour schemes, AND specify ships (which can be mounted with special scaleable weapon and module slots) To generate their own line of ships in the style of your designs. For example you can specify scout, fighter, med capital, large capital, huge capital, colony, trade, constructor and even space station and shipyard. This being the minimum functional ammount of ships for your race, but then being able to add med capital (beam/kinetic/missile etc) bomber etc as optional.

Its annoying playing as my race and having to manually make generic designs obsolete, and update my own designs personally instead of having it auto update.