Auto Design Cheating?

AI-Designed ships have undeveloped components

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I have auto-design turned on in my options so the computer pumps out new ship designs as new technology becomes available -- good time saver in some cases. I also have my options set so that when I click upgrade, the functional components are NOT removed.

What's interesting is when I upgraded a couple of the automatically-generated designs, the compuer had both over-filled the design (used 85 of 67 spaces) and had used a component that I had not yet researched (Plasma when my highest beam was Laser V).

Or do I misunderstand ship design?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Nope. I've had the same thing happen all the time.

Unfortunately, the ship it designed with three-times as many weapons of a tech level five higher than I had researched was just too darned ugly for me to actually use. (I'm picky. ^_^)

Still, I winced when I deleted it.

I believe this is what we call a "bug".
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The plasma weapons are only visuell, belonging to the template the game used to design the ship. They do nothing, while the real weapons are invisible to let it look like the template.

But the other thing is a bug.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The "85 of 67" is an issue of the ship designer making ships as if you had max miniaturization.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The "85 of 67" is an issue of the ship designer making ships as if you had max miniaturization.
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Nope. With max miniaturization, the ship designer gave me a 387/300 huge hull design. The actual issue is that the designer doesn't take into account the growth of parts in relation to hull size. You can verify that by looking at the supposed sizes of the parts the computer places. On the ship design, each Doom Ray was listed as size 10 (its base size), whereas the size of a Doom Ray on a huge hull should be 16 (and it is if placed manually).
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well the calculation which adds on the SizeMod for a component (which is a percentage of the hull size) could return zero if one were to divide by 100 in integer format. I imagine that'll be fairly easy to fix.