Not sure if this is an appropriately descriptive name but it's an idea that popped into my head. Basically, have a system where you could assign crew members to certain responsibilities on the space station. Maybe based on the stats of the NPC you might get a bonus to say, research speed. Just an idea, not very well fleshed out, but I thought I'd post it anyway.
Do ships... even have stats? I don't even think research HAS a speed. I think if you have the blueprints/stuff you need/people you need, you can make the item, otherwise you can't. I don't think researching new items is planned
My understanding is that you can obtain blueprints for items through a research system, based on what was said in a recent Q&A session: "Tiy: You'll also be able to open a research lap on the space station, which will lead to a tech tree" and "Rho_: we could possibly do something where reverse engineering the weapon boosts the research progress towards it" I don't know if ships have stats, but I know npc's do. I suppose we don't really have a good enough understanding of how that works, but again it was just an idea.
