hmm, perhaps a facility to HIDE hull types? ie not remove them from the game but just not display them.
Good idea and not really not much of a problem: the game already hides ship components when we tag them as obsolete. This could work similarly.
Correct. And if you could, it would crash the game when you deleted a hull type that an NPR was using.
Good point, but it shouldn't be a problem prior the start of a new game. If only there was a text file I could go snip before I started. I guess there might be; I'm playing through my first game and haven't really taken a look at what I can tinker with. I considered trying to set up some themes for ship names, but since I started adding prefixes to my ships I figured it wasn't too much of a burden to just type out from ship-name lists I put together for an older space empire game.