• Don't leave your bases at refuel ships all the time. You don't need your ships all filled-up.
  • You can build fully-tech-10 ships even when you don't have an all-tech-10 base: Build a small ship with tech-10 engines, move it to another base, and recycle it. You now have the tech-10 engines in storage and can build them into another ship, maybe with tech-10 engines and tech-10 torpedoes. Move that to the tech-10 hulls base, recycle it, and build a tech-10 hull/engines/torps ship there.
  • Unless you're using Super Refit, there's usually no point of having starship parts in storage which you do not immediately build into ships.
  • Understand and use the Build Queue rules in effect for your game.