I am wondering if there is a way to update a ship design without it going to the base hull when the ship is something that was already built into the game.
I would have used a forum search but there appears to be no such feature... (that or I am blind)
For example I wanted to upgrade a starfury (design came with the game) and when I did that it gave me the base hull without any of the doodads that give the ship it's look.
Update works fine for ships I have already made but some designs are just fine to me (new at making ships) and I don't want to always start from scratch on one of the pre-built designs.
As an asside so far this latest beta seems pretty shiny excepting of course for the social production not applying at all to military production (though it says the unused social is being applied to military) and social production icons are always greyed out looking now (they used to be bright and easy to see).