What I'd like to do is be able to start the game with more than one bonus ship type, but without doing a multiple-homeworld start. I like the multi-home start option, but as noted in another thread, it's a different sort of challenge. I'd just like to play the normal 1 home start, but with the fun and variety of some extra starting types.
That said, adding this to the game creation option screen seems potentially awkward/confusing with the multi-home stuff already there. So what I'm actually suggesting is for a cheat code that will give you one random bonus ship technology every time you use it. (These would be independent of those bonus ship techs you get from capturing the ARS's). This would do the trick, and should be far easier to implement, I'd guess.
Thanks!