I just want to make it clear that I'm not criticizing anyone on the forums - I just really feel like Stardock has made it clear in the early going that modding support is not a priority and I think that that has had a discouraging effect on the modding community. There are some great mods on here but I've noticed that new mods and even updates of existing mods has slowed to a trickle.
Stardock has been one of my favorite companies - not just developers, favorite companies - for a long time. I just really feel like they screwed the pooch on supporting a modding community in a big, big way. The game has been out for 5 and a half months and there is still no announcement of workshop support for total conversions. There's no easy way to download and add buildings. It's still ludicrously difficult to do even very basic things like creating color sets and custom shipsets.
I've built my own Star Trek mod for personal use (I can't distribute it because I don't own the ship designs), and the mod sucks because I'm not talented and I don't have any collaborators. Paraphrasing a post I read once: this game has got a Ferrarri engine and we're using it to power golf cart. The untapped potential of this game is enormous but I'm not sure we're going to build the community necessary to unlock it.
Anyway, I guess I just wanted to vent. For those of you doing active work in the mod community, I thank you. I'm not saying things are never going to change but I will say that SD has squandered the early excitement that accompanies the release of any game. If a modding community like the one I imagined for this game is going to get going I would guess it will be many months from now, perhaps even years. My big worry is that there won't be a very big modding community at all. It's just a huge bummer.