Hey That's not my ship!

Also, if I design a new ship with the same name as one of my existing designs, I get another glitch. Every starport that isn't building something immediately begins to construct the new ship. =/

Weird. I haven't hit *that* version of the glitch but I have run into one where I see the old ship design but have the new ship stats. After it is built I think the picture upgrades properly, but until then it looks like the old design.

Also, if I design a new ship with the same name as one of my existing designs, I get another glitch. Every starport that isn't building something immediately begins to construct the new ship. =/

I'm pretty sure this has happened to me: I know that a number of times I have noticed that all my idle starports are suddenly building my latest design.

As for building pirate ships, this is the first I have heard of it, and it is definitely a bug.

Also, if I design a new ship with the same name as one of my existing designs, I get another glitch. Every starport that isn't building something immediately begins to construct the new ship. =/

Actually, this happens to me regularily every time its after I design a ship yet it doesn't have the same name as any other ship I made is it some feature in the game that makes idle planets mass produce that ship?

You might be able to rename the ship file in "\my games\galciv2\ships"; each custom ship has a file with shipname.shipclass
You might be able to rename it from here, and see if that allows you to start building them. I've not tried this, though, so it might not work.

The mass producing happened to me sometime.

Naming ship is the hardest paart for me too, here's a trick use existing ship names with adjectives like super [insert name], etc.

Every starport that isn't building something immediately begins to construct the new ship. =/

The only time I see this is when I obselete a ship. then the game will start building the new design

thats strange - i tried to create a 'Corvette' class ship once and was told that I couldn't because it was an original ship design.

QUOTE: « My starport had constructed a pirate Star Raider! I double clicked it, and read the description of the craft. It was indeed pre-designed. »

Do you know if you could build Dreadlord ships that way??

Every starport that isn't building something immediately begins to construct the new ship.

Why in the world do you have starports sitting idle?

To save money, unused military production doesn't cost you a dime, unlike social production.

Oh dear...it appears like this may not just be a bug, but a potential exploit too. If it were possible to build Star Raiders for tiny ship prices...even BEFORE weapons are researched...or really, being able to build Star Raiders at all, but especially before weapons research. That could completely unbalance a game.

The only solution I can think of right now would be simply to not name any ship a Star Raider, or if you do, add on some kind of tech prefix, like an X-7A Star Raider or somesuch thing.

As for the no-name change update glitch...well, technically the game DOES warn you if you do that. It says that it doesn't recommend saving new ships with the same names. Perhaps the glitch is a big reason why. I know I've had it where my shipyards, upon the glitch, suddenly start churning out dozens of constructors...and I have dozens of planets to keep track of...blarg!

I hope these two little loopholes get plugged up soon. The "obsolete/upgrade" glitch is just plain annoying (and potentially damaging in some games), but the Star Raider bug is just a downright exploit, ESPECIALLY if it were used in a Metaverse game.

I have had a similar problem when re-using my own designs from a previous campaign. If I try to save a design with a name I have already used, I crash to the desktop.

You might be able to rename the ship file in "\my games\galciv2\ships"; each custom ship has a file with shipname.shipclass You might be able to rename it from here, and see if that allows you to start building them. I've not tried this, though, so it might not work.

Thank you! I'll try that when I get home.

Why in the world do you have starports sitting idle?

As Kalin said, it was to save some cash. Also, I was at 'peace' (cough), and I was maxing research to get some new weapons.

Thanks for all of your replies.

As an extension to naming ships, I build a ship and leave it barebones.... this then becomes the class model for that ship. So in your example above, my ship would have been called "Star Raider Class"..... then future iterations of it with weapons defenses would have been "Mk1 Star Raider" "Mk2 Star Raider" etc. I know its a little late now, but creating a system for yourself can really help in the long run.

That's a really nice idea Spearthrower.

I'm not sure if a dev is aware of this problem yet, though. At the weekend I should have a bit more time to get online, so I'll get a screenshot posted of the ship, and also of the original design. (Both ships are large, but the hull shape is different).

Is there a good way to take screenshots in-game without having to use the PrtScr, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+V approach?

Luckily I havent had any of these problems yet, but I did have a weird one the other day. I upgraded one of my ship classes and finally had the cash to upgrade my most experienced/highest HP small hull to the new 24 mass driver design. While it was upgrading, I fleeted it, unfleeted it, renamed it, saved loaded and who knows what else I did that could have screwed it up. Anyway after it finished upgrading, I was the unproud owner of a 60 HP medium hull laser 3 ship, with 4 engines that were 2 levels higher than what I had! I named it FUBAR and sent it out to destroy weak bases and transports and such. It had to be and AI ship, probably Terran, cause its 3 lasers were all sticking out the left side of ship and looking like crap like most AI designed ships do.

Just tested this in a metaverse game and confirmed that its an exploit. Worked with a large hull, a tiny hull, and buying/building didn't seem to make a difference. Since a tiny hull with no items on it can be bought directly for under 300bc this is incredibly powerful in the early game. Building it the normal way gives you an incredibly cheap battleship, more than a match for anything up to the mid game.

Of course, in the game I tested this on, I already had better ships, so I just used the 3 I ended up building/buying to the AI that was getting beat on the most.

Really? I didn't get aorund to trying this myself. So you can use tiny ships to spawn large ones. That is quite disturbing. Heh, I always knew there was a reason the AI had better ships than me.

Well, I just tried it myself with a tiny ship hull, but it didn't work. Perhaps it only works once pirates have been 'activated' within the game?