Very exciting stuff, though I have to ask why doctrine priorities are so binary? If part of the reason for priorities is to allow the player more freedom and granularity in controlling their faction why not have priority as a scale, so a player could, say, build a low tech faction with enforcers and lashers as their backbone, but add higher tech ships as rarer assets either for roleplaying purposes (maybe they've made gains against tri-tachyon recently) or just for the sake of fleet diversity without breaking the faction's overarching theme.
I can see why someone might want that; in fact there's a setting like this under the hood, to allow some finer tuning of non-player factions. It's functionally not the same as priority, though - priority is binary because the way it works in the ship-picker code is fundamentally binary. Also, binary is more clear and easier to convey.
Anyway, to answer your question: it's because I don't think the benefits of this extra customization are worth the complexity/effort of making the UI to manage it like that, and what you can already do can get you most of the way there in any case (i.e. prioritize one or two high tech ships, and chances are, you'll get mostly what you want, as far as your specific example). It's like, 50% more complexity/work for 10% more customization, with possibly even less actual gameplay impact.
And don't think I didn't see that teaser for a new low-tech toy...
Sharp! Now, can you identify what it is? I have complete confidence in your ability to do so.
Also, a suggestion: maybe add some subtle UI to hint that there are two sets of fleet options that are linked? e.g a line under "Phase Ships", "More Ships" and "Ship Size"
They're grouped together - I *think* that's fairly apparent visually? I did have to squish it a bit more than I'd like to get some extra vertical space, though...
(It looks like there's plenty of room above the "reset" button, but that's 1280x800, where the minimum is 1280x768. Could put reset/confirm side by side, perhaps, but the way it is now mimics how they are in the character tab.)
Has Great Leader died?
... or are they in charge of the Khoros Foundation?
"Solo Nobre, Rocky Metallic World"
Been playing some Brigador?
Possibly. There's only a few Brigador names in the name-gen, but it seems to come up *way* often. E.G. I wasn't trying to make the reference for the blog post, just happened to jump into a system that had Solo Nobre in it.