The list of ship types, weapons and engines available in the game. The choice of the ship list largely affects gameplay. There exist various ship lists trying to fix problems with the original list; some others just want to be different.
A ship list consists of the following files:
- hullspec.dat: all the ship types in the game (105).
- truehull.dat: assigns to each player the hulls he can build (up to 20 types per player).
- engspec.dat: the engine definitions (9).
- beamspec.dat: the beam weapons (10).
- torpspec.dat: the torpedoes and launchers (10).
- shiplist.txt (optional): configuration and ship function settings.
