Can't upgrade ships

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Perhaps I've missed something, but I can't upgrade any of my ships to new designs (AI created or created by me) even though I use the plan of an existing ship and upgrade it in the shipyard.  The only option I have when I click upgrade is to upgrade to a scout.  Do I need to do something special to upgrade in Twilight? 

Clarification:  I'm trying to upgrade the actual ships and not only the design.

Thanks for the help.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Make sure the ship you're trying to upgrade is the same hull size as the one you want to upgrade it to. Sounds like you just have no other tiny designs.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for the response. Your response indicates that this is not a widespread problem, let me try and explain a little more clearly what I am doing.


Actually, what I am doing is going to the existing plan in shipyard, clicking upgrade, changing the engine to a newer one, and changing the name, saving it. Then I go to one of the old ships that is out on patrol on the star map, select it and click the upgrade button under details. The only option I get is scout (whether it is tiny or small hull), I haven't advanced to medium sized hulls yet. I don't see an option to upgrade to the new plan that I just made.

Assuming that upgrading the exact plan of that ship doesn't change the hull size, this should work. This is the exact set of steps I use in dark avatar without a problem. I was wondering if something has changed, or what I am doing wrong.

I also notice that ships created with an AI design, cannot upgrade to the next version of the ai design either. (i.e. defender m1 can't upgrade to defender m2)

I can send a save if it is helpful.


thanks!
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've narrowed down this problem (in beta 6) to plans that the computer has auto created. Once they are created, if I create an upgrade (or the computer creates an upgrade) to that plan. I can't upgrade to it. For example if the computer auto generates a plan called firestorm m1 (which is not a core design). Then I go in and upgrade that design (add some new engines for example) and name it firestorm custome. If I had a already made ship which was a firestorm m1, I couldn't upgrade to the firestorm custom. If the computer ai creates a firestorm m2 later on, I still won't be able to upgrade the firestorm m1 ship to either the new plan I created or the one the computer created.

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks!
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes, AFAIK you can't manually upgrade TA's computer-made designs.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Will the ships be upgraded on their own at some point?