Question about upgrading ships

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So in the shipyards there is a button that allows you to upgrade any ship to the current design.

This button is useless


The reason this button is useless is that it only works on the stock game built designs.    Anything that I have custom built is a unique snowflake that has no "upgrade path"


When in the ship designer I have the option to "use this design"    and I can name it whatever I want and call it totally new...

But there is no option to take an existing design and upgrade it so that the game sees it as an upgrade.


Why not?

Why is there no way to designate that  my medium ship with warp engines is an upgrade over the exact same ship with Ion engines?

Is there a reason mechanically why the game treats every design I make as a unique snowflake?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I'll second this question/request.

But I have to qualify it with wondering if the desired functionality has been there all along and I just don't know how to use it. Recently, I've been looking at the Save As Template option in the save dialog for the Ship Designer. There's no screentip for it, no info in the wiki yet, and I've not hunted the forums hard enough to find any explanation there.

Having the 'Update design to latest version' button be useful might be as simple as saving a custom base design as a template and then picking using the Use Design command on it when you're ready to build a better model?

Another case of me thinking about stuff but not having enough time to test or really dig into the forums...

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

That's a good thought, but I don't think it works that way.   I tend to save a blank template of every design I make and then add components later.

 

There Might be a way to designate upgrades already in game, but if there is, I have not been able to find it.

I really want it.

 

 

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