Half my ships "mutate" after loading game

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The last couple of times I've loaded a saved game I have noticed that my custom designed ships seem to randomly change. I had some small and medium sized ships completely change what components and weapons/armor were placed on them. For example, on one small ship I had mass drivers equipped. When I loaded my game up again half of the ships of that type that I had produced had many of their "eye candy" ship components removed and the weapon system had switched over to a laser. This is EXTREMELY annoying, since it could cost someone dearly in a close fought war situation. Not to mention the result of the "mutation" makes the ships look crap!

Also, when I upgrade a ship and mark the previous version obsolete, many of my worlds can (and will) still produce the older design. This gets especially confusing when the ships are named the same. I often put "MkI" or "MkII" after the name, but I don't always want to (and shouldn't have to).

If it helps, I'm playing as the Iconians on the "Challenging" setting. Largest galaxy, tight star clusters and everything abundant with all other races present.
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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Cari has made it so old ships are truely deleted. That should fix this I think. The update should be out this afternoon, so try that, if it dose not work let us know.

In the mean time you can name the ships in a more unique names fore each design.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well I saw this when I switched race ships. My old human ship designs freak out when you switch to Tor designs.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks very much for the reply! I'll get the update when I get home and give it a try. Hopefully it will fix the major bug I had too, with my existing ships changing their appearance and armament after loading my saved game. It's not that they would revert to a previous design, they would change to an entirely new design which I had never constructed before and were not default designs.

Anyway, thanks again, I'll give the new version a shot. Congrats on an otherwise excellent and social life-sapping game!
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well I saw this when I switched race ships. My old human ship designs freak out when you switch to Tor designs.



Actually, I had used ship names identical to the ones I used in one of my previous games where I used a different racial ship design. Sounds like that could be the problem.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ha, my ships became mutated too when I called up old designs after having switched races for a new game. ( I hope that when it happened, there weren't any souls aboard....yeech)