Did a ref sheet for the K240 ships starting scaling the blueprints, and discovered that the manual is doing the sci-fi thing where ship sizes are just haphazard numbers and volume in not understood. Looking at the game relevant specs, like weapon slots, HP, ore cost, lengths should probably increase like 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 or something.

Combat Eagle: 30 HP, 10m, 2 slots
Fleet Battleship: 70 HP, 92m, 6 slots

Fleet tactics were ultimately made kinda irrelevant in K240 due to Asteroid Engines.

I guess if the ship hulls are just like balloons, then a larger ship might not be more powerful.

If the shield modules negated damage like in Master of Orion 1 then it might be worth it to get a larger ship. But in K240 the shields just add hit points. There's also a bug where repair towers make shield boosted hit points overflow to 0 and kill the ship.

K240 has a lot of hidden info, which isn't good for a strategy game. But it's cool to build stuff on asteroids and see the ships fly around.

Rescaled the K240 ships based on gameplay feel and doodled a bit of nonsense detail on them.

Typing enter nasa enter will spawn cheat ships. At first I thought the Fleet Battleship would be able to 1 on 1 an enemy colony since I got it by cheating so early and the sprite is quite large, but it's just about as powerful as a few of the small ships.

Repixeled the K240 buttons and the Fleet Battleship.

I think the game is 14 colours + two anim flash, and a bitmask (so 17 colours including background transparency). But it might be 32 colours if it uses a sort of half-brite mode for the GUI dimming. Dimming could be done in 16 colours with palette and blitting operations as well I suppose, if the palette is organized properly.

A 1-bit 2 colour screen at the bottom for hover-over text and messages would've been nice. Game insisted on 320x200.