Federation complains that I hope will be addressed

[Sheriff Godwin Law]

Wait realy? shees, if being in a Federation wasn't such hassle (and more often then not) not worth my time, i'd do it...

Yeah, getting to have ships I couldn't afford for free part of the time is realistically the only reason I ever join a Federation. It's certainly not out of any desire to find bits and pieces to throw to my allies every time I go to war.

 

[WhiteWeasel]

The federation president directly builds and upgrades all federation ships, so they choose the FTL type already, and non-federation ships can't use anything but their creator's FTL type, so what would that standard even do?

Well what happens when the next president is of a species with a different FTL type and they start building their own federation ships?

 

[Peko?]

Well what happens when the next president is of a species with a different FTL type and they start building their own federation ships?

Federation designs have access to all tech from all federation empires, including FTL engines.

 

[Sheriff Godwin Law]

Well what happens when the next president is of a species with a different FTL type and they start building their own federation ships?

The next president will generally refit the ships to have his own FTL type, but realistically when you get the ships you can use whatever FTL type they have.

The only problem comes about when you get wormhole ships but you have no wormhole stations. They can't use your allies wormhole stations, so you end up having to use the 'return to base' command, and since the game can't path they disappear for 6 months before appearing at one of your starbases. Then you pretty much have to spend the minerals to refit them.