Please - Help needed with 1.4 Patch Install

Hello All

Although I bought this game shortly after release I have just begun to play.
Great game

My question is:
I am about 150 turns into my first game and want to install the 1.4 patch.

Will installing the 1.4 patch destroy / affect my current game and or my saved games?
If so, will saving "saved game files" elsewhere and re installing them later work?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. We have just run out of new planets and my once friendly neighbors are starting to get edgy.

Thanks in advance

JMD

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kryo

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If you are running 1.0, then you should wait until you complete the your current game before updating. Patching will not delete them, but they will most likely be incompatible with the updated version of the game, due to the extensive changes that have been made to it over the past year.

Also note that the ship design format was changed between 1.0 and 1.1 or 1.2, so you will lose any designs you made prior to the patch.

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Kryo

Thanks very much for the fast reply.
After reading of all the changes made from patch version to patch version I had thought saved game files might not be forward compatible.
Now I am very glad I asked.

Also for what ever it is worth:
Being a pc gamer now for more than 25 years (gulp) I must give kudos’s to Stardock for such a great game and more importantly for such excellent attention and support.

Well done

Best

JMD

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