Do you have auto design disabled? With enabled they are definitely there. I cant say for disabled as I usually cheese with the auto ships since they are almost 2x cheaper and faster to build than ships i usually build.

The only 'core' ships in TA are the basic non-combat types, and maybe a defender or similar (don't recall exactly). Nothing else will appear unless you have autodesign on or made them yourself.

Then, i might have confused some gameplay 'features' from DA only to realize that TA doesn't actually have a similar group of preset ships to use... since, i'm into continual switching modes between the different settings for modding purposes & tests.

It's most probably an instinctive reaction to such variable contexts. Strangely though, i was almost sure the 2.0x versions had somehow created a number of "newly added" principles which i couldn't compare with.

I was certainly wrong to assume that something in the code itself was changed, in fact.

So, i guess it's right back to using the provided auto-design method (as intended) and hoping that we will get more control over the sliders & 'elements' eventually instead of a general triple set of strict +/-100% categories for intuitive attack & defense auto_choices.

Oooops, my mistake Kryo.

After some thorough verification, i suddenly realized that any of these 'exclusive' techs DO show up as they should when the necessary races are active and that none share **some** rare elements -- as it always was.

So, disregard the above post!

Back to continuing X-Worlds version 06-A with its new terraforming feature(s) and some "introductory" ships & fleets.