Ok thanks for the answer, on a similar note, can you have more ship slots than the current sins selection (i.e light frig, long frig, siege frig, anti frig, scout frig, colony frig, and then two more frigs) and would the ai run properly as well?
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but conventional shipyards can support 18 frigates types, and 9 capitalships and titans. However, you can't make any more weapon or armor types, so you'll probably need to rely on abilities to make any new sort of ship stand out.