Here's a solution that I've tried and works. As soon as the game starts, pause the game, then disable the auto cast on the dreadnaught yard. Then you can choose to summon a dreadnaught at your leisure. You have to be really fast on that pause button though.
Seriously though I don't know why you would want to do that. You will be at a real disadvantage without a dreadnaught at first. No capital ship can go up against a dreadnaught and survive. Plus the ai pays to get it's dreadnaught up to level 2 first thing.
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