On a slightly sidewards note do you guys see blank sections in the ship list when you open up a stock ship in the designer? By this i mean the list of parts attached to the ship at the top of the right hand screen. I am wondering if the blank parts have something to do with it as i never get the issue with custom made ships.
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Yes. This is also a recurring problem. I thought it was fixed at one time but reappeared in the last Beta from my observation. This can cause crashes when one tries to update an existing ship design and those blank thumbnails are there. It can be resolved (for me anyway) by saving, exiting and then reloading the game when one sees the blank ship component thumbnail. I've found that when I do that, the problem disappears for the rest of the game and I don't have a crash. If I try to update that ship without doing that, it almost always crashes.
I think the invisible ships could indicate a corrupted ship file. Take that with a grain of salt because I'm no programmer by any means. However, I do recall that there were corrupted weapons animations at one time a few betas back which caused certain weapons not to appear on the screen. Once those files were cleaned up, all animations started working.
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