Ship Design Weirdness

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I have designed many ships before and never had a problem until recently. I tried to make something exceptional and constructed a ship with perhaps 100+ extras. It looks gorgeous! Now I'm psyched to load it up with weapons and actually use it in gameplay. There's the rub. When I try to add more than 7 weapons, things go haywire. These odd lines appear like cables connecting various components. Other components disappear. My ship essentially starts to fall apart and literally cracks start appearing. My only thought is that there is some sort of limit to how many items you can put on a design. Has anyone else run up against this before? Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I once stuffed a whole bunch of extras on one of my ships (back in DL) and some of the parts went missing after I saved it. The game might be only able to handle so many extras, though it might of been fixed since then.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've experienced my own issues - and it was LONG before putting the same amount of stuff you're trying to put on your ship.

The bug I've encountered is where I'll place something on a hardpoint... and it simply doesn't look like the item got placed - yet the item takes up space = pretty frustrating.

I'm on DA 1.5, so I've simply put it down to being an old bug that probably got fixed in an update. No idea what version you're on, but maybe you wanna look at upgrading?

hope you get it sorted,


Chr*s
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, it wasn't a problem with an old bug. I'm uptodate and fully patched.

I think it was just far too many extras. I'd have to click the button on the upper right three or more times to sort through all the various extras I had, so there were over 100. I think when I tried to add more items it just went haywire.

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