Why are old ships showing up in new games?

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I've noticed that some times custom ship designs from previous games are showing up in new games. So, custom ships that my little brother designs are in the tech tree just like the core ship designs.

Is there a way to turn that feature off? It drives me crazy. I like to design lots of custom ships for given situations, and the shipyard window is getting cluttered pretty quickly.

Thanks!
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That's kind of the whole point of the ship design system, for them to show up in your future games. If you play the same race and base hull design (human, yor, etc) then your ships are saved from game to game. I guess if you don't want them to show up again you can delete them in game at anytime (or obsolete them so they are removed from your current game but will appear in your next one).
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Enabling/Disabling past ship designs is definately a good idea for a patch.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I second that. I like to do something fresh each game - even if the differences are purely cosmetic. It depends on my mood.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm with EnsRegis on this one. I always delete or move all ship designs manually (in the corresponding folder) before starting a new game. Every game is different, I rarely match the requirements for my old designs at the right point of time.

By the way, is there a way to get rid of the standard designs? I don't use them anyway.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, I know what you mean. Past ship designs are almost always worthless to me because I design ships when I need to create a new line of ships according to enemy aggression and my level of tech. For example, if I'm at peace, I don't even bother building military ships because by the time I am at war, they will be obsolete. If I see enemy transport ships approaching, I quickly design a ship with the most modern technologies that I have and buy a few of those. They almost always outclass the enemy because prior to this, I had no garrison and put all money into research.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ditto. Esp since i am just learning the game, part of that is making mistakes in ship design. I delete all the designs in the user ships folder before a new game. Deleting a design in game does not seem to keep it from showing up again either. Seems obsolete and delete do the same thing. Remove it from your current game. I suspect using delete design would scrap all ships of that design right where they sat, but have not tried it. (read delete=kill ships, not kill design). (again, it's an assumption).

Once you get familiar with the game and know how to get rid of them, it's not that big a deal. But I had to find this out for myself being a new player. More documentation on this would have been nice (just a comment, not a gripe).

In one of my learning games, one of my designs was quite awsome for the period. 4 lasers, armor, goodies.....A real good hitter......... on a transport hull. . 1 hit point........... ONE.

In the next game, this same lame duck POS shows up. I really expected to get a message from my military advisor:
" Hey, you remember THIS blunder?! HAHAHAHAHAHA......noobs".
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Bah... a strong cargo ship is what I call a Kamikaze... almost the only way to kill the dread lords until your tech catcg up with them.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, have to worry about those early on in the game. Good thing I had those 2 move monsters handy. :rolleyes:
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ive even seen that ur ships "designs" comes in when u have played another shipstyle! it looks different (not my making) BUT have the exakt same name! like "New Worlds MK1" is one of my very first designs..
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ive even seen that ur ships "designs" comes in when u have played another shipstyle! it looks different (not my making) BUT have the exakt same name! like "New Worlds MK1" is one of my very first designs..


Yeah I hate that.. they really need to address this. If you're playing one ship style all your previous ship designs should at least stay with that one ship design.. not transfer across the board and look messed up for diffrent ship styles!