So far I was buying fighters in mass and sending them through my usual 'full-on' equipment itinerary : Legend's Home -> Thuruk's Beard -> Ceo's Sprite - Home of Light, till I discovered that some shipyards (unfortunately not all) can allow up a larger number of ships to dock at once, and enable faster equipping. But either way, this is by far the most tedious bit. (Again, I'm way too much of a perfectionist and could easily skip most of that, but I gotta feel that, should worse come to worse, I can switch to any of my other ships and find all the functionalities I need. I just don't buy them all the MK3 software as is costs an arm!)
As for weapons & gear, I just jump them all to my PHQ full of what they need (HEPT, shields and missiles) and fit them in bulk, this is also relatively handy. But whenever you do that for over 10 ships, every little mistake forces you to start over.
I also really like the Griffon, it's a fun ship to play. I (painstakingly) overtuned mine to 220m/s and 7rpm, and it contains 9 self-produced Aamon. Pretty fierce, for its small size. What keeps bothering me is the absence of big guns on it, it's hard to take on an M2 with it unless you spam missiles (what I'd give for 4 IBL or PBC slots!)
Btw, do you have with any mod at all for more challenging enemies? Now that I control most of the galaxy I'm considering increasing the difficulty just so I can continue playing
