Ship Designs for the unimaginative.

from GalCiv2 Forums
Ok, if you are like me, you like spending more time playing the game rather than designing your own ships. Of course, at some point, you will need to go into the ship design depending on your current circumstances. What I would like to be able to do is take a core design (with all the extra bits) and tack on what I need. For example, in some of my larger games, I take a constructor and tack on an extra engine to cut down on the distance factor. If I click on a core design and select upgrade, all the extras are removed and I start from scratch (Beta 3 Version). If I click on a user design, the extras stay, and I can modify what I already have. Any opinions on the subject?
5,818 views 5 replies
Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
The ship should stay "as is" in the upgrade design screen. There should be a "remove all components except widgets" button.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I absolutely agree, however......the Core ships get everything removed except for the hull.
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Still... It's not really that hard to sort out though is it? 30 seconds to add the contstucter dodad or whatever.
Still, if it stays on the user ships it should stay on the core ships.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There is an option to keep the components in the Main Menu Options area. Just check it.

I think there are some issues with upgrading Core designs in the beta3 release - this is rthe first release you can do that so I'm sure they will get the bugs worked out. That is what the beta is for.

You can download user designs in the Library and at a lot of fan sites that are pre-made. I just posted a ship pack for the Terran Fleet - 19 ships of all types. They are core hulls so you can add what you want - they should appear with only the hull size tech requirement if you are the Terran player. You can mod them to use with custom races or any race that is using the Human hull design. You can just add components and save it with a new name. With 1.1 beta3 the original will be auto-obsoleted - this will be fixed in the next version per SD so you can continue to make variations.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks. Oh and BTW, I already downloaded your ships. And probably everyone else's that was on the this site, thanks again. It was not the components I was worried about, it was only the dodads. I just wanted to make sure it got on the list of bugs and let SpaceDock know people were looking at it.

Love Beta 3 even more than Beta 2. Highly anticipating V1.2 Full.