help with ship templates

from Stardock Forums

hi can anyone help me with these problems im trying to save my ship designs and when i do it sometimes comes up with duplicates of ships and wierd stuff like the fighter i just made will save as the battle ship i just made etcc and when i delete the battle ship duplicate it deletes all my ships so i lose both of them what am i doing wrong here?

also im trying to get the colony ship i just made to apere as the first ship in my custom race but when i start the game its always still the defualt ship?

 

any help whould be great

thanks in advance

simmokiwi

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Ship templates was a new feature when DA was release, so ship templates only work with DA and TA. With DL, it was common practice to make a blank ship with the desired jewelery, and then upgrade the design whenever you wanted a new ship of the given model. By making the ship empty, you could always have access to a design regardless of your miniturization level.

As for DA and TA, duplicate designs seem to be a common event. You can't make a ship template of a design without actually designing the said ship as an actual ship. Atleast, I haven't been able to do so. Make a point of only deleting the buildable ship, and not the template and you should be fine (though it does take extra clicking than you probally want).

Let me know if this answers your questions.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

thanks guys helped heaps got my fleet in and working now too 8-)