I haven't checked to see if this was added or requested yet (sorry if it was on either count), but I think it deserves consideration.

I remember that a lot of the fun of building a fleet in the game "Conquest: frontier wars" was that you you saw your ships being built from the inside out while they were in "drydock". It made you feel like your hard earned random-space-resources were being put to good use.   

On a slight tangent...

You could build as many shipyards as you had room on planets (kind of like the planet slot system in SOASE) and could build as many ships as you had shipyards (with command point limitations of course, also like SOASE).

However, the difference between SOASE and conquest is that you could see your ships being built, even when you were a little backlogged on command points the ships would be built and simply wait in the shipyards until some (command points) are freed up or built. I think that this meshes well with the ideas that have been implemented in SOASE so far...(the idea of building ships while the research is still in the works...etc...)

Thanks, and keep up the good work Devs and beta testers alike!