Well hi, welcome back!
Garage ships exist but I wouldn’t call them OP. That was the debate in the quote you referenced.
It depends. AMs are always a good choice, OCD is as well. The OCD and EB levels were bumped up to 10 this season.
Yes, I have a whole post about garage ships here. HWS Garage Ship Community Review and Discussion
The only weapon limits to have changed are turrets on bases and mounted CV rockets and laser.
Yep, look at the garage ship submission section to the post I linked you above. I believe there is a more updated post from Rexxxus about it but that’s the basics. They need to be approved.
Roughly every 3 months.
Yes.
Also yes.
Server side, no. My faction (TAW) does do something like that internally and we’ve discussed doing something for the whole server like you mentioned.
That’s really situational. I’d try to avoid going back to starter because you only get one fa:supply per week.
Not on ECC. The meta planet next to it, yes. Check the planet for limits.
No. Multiple locations.
Any more questions?