A couple of questions

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Ok, so I've been playing, and hooked for a while, but I have a couple of questions (problems?)

First, is on the computer side of things... I installed the demo, then purchased and installed the gold edition.  However, I still have the demo, gold edition and dark avatar under my start menu - should I care or wait for the new expansion and then perform a fresh install?

Second (game based) I cannot seem to be able to use custom ship designs from one game to the next, I "bling" out my ships, then they are not available in the next game.  Yes, I do mark the spot to save the ship designs, and I use the exact same race (custom race).  The odd thing is that I can find the "blinged" up ships in the design menu if I restart the game, without exiting from the game.

Any ideas?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I might be able to help!?

First one: it won't matter as far as the demo, you should be able to remove it since it should be in a different subfolder than the main program. The gold edition and dark avatar icons will remain, unless you just remove them from the desktop. They are both part of the core program. Expansions add to the base game, they don't install completely seperate. So if you do a fresh install you will be simply reinstalling GC2 and DA, then adding TotA. So I would only think about clearing out the demo; the rest needs to stay.

Second one: unless you first save you ship "design" without any modules/weapons/etc. you will have to wait until you get to the same technology level you first created them in. If you design without the "working parts" as they're refered to and save it, you then have that design ready for any game and only need the tech for that size of hull. Then you "upgrade" in the designer and add the other parts as available, remembering to adjust the name of the ship (i.e. Ver 1, Mk 2, etc.).

This should help get you ready for TotA and reuse your designs. Good luck!
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Even with all the required techs, the designs will not appear - even at the end of the game with lots of techs researched, the designs for use early on (ion engines, survey module, general life support, basic miniaturization) do not appear. My "Seer" craft will not appear, though if I try to re-save the design, I get a dialog box telling me it is unwise to save over old designs.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Are you playing a different race than the one you designed the original ships in? If they're using a different hull template, they won't show up.

Other than that, I don't know of anything. (That reminds me, I need to clean out my saved ships - I'm tired of having to come up with new variations on the word 'crap' for each new ship I build.)
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
So, I uninstalled the demo, which uninstalled most of the game. A quick(ish) reinstall fixed the ship showing up problem, now all I need to do is figure out how to have the explored area and enemy owned areas in the mini map at the same time...
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The "explored" area shows up if you choose "blind exploration" on the initial game setup. Otherwise the entire map is displayed right from the start.

To the top right of the minimap are a list of icons that can toggle what your mini-map displays. One of the icons looks like three overlapping circles. Clicking on this will show each empire's area of influence within the area you have explored.

Hope that helps,
~ Wyndstar