How to upgrade ships

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I'm fairly new to playing Gal Civ II.  I've noticed when I upgrade my ship designs the only way I seem to be able to upgrade my old ships of the same type is by paying for it.  Is there a way I can have my planets upgrade the ships manually (like they do when building new ships).  So what I want to do is when I upgrade, lets say my Fighter from I to the new II level (with more advanced weapons/defenses) I want to be able to que my factories to do the upgrade instead of spending 300BC or so per ship to upgrade - is there a way to do this?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I'm afraid not. There is no way to get around the cost of upgrading. If I understand your idea correctly, you want to "pay" for the upgrades with factory production, but you can only do it with credits.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Yes, there is.

Shut down the factory.  Use the credits to pay for ship upgrades.  It's a workaround solution, but in terms of actual effect, it's pretty much the same.  Once I have an active fleet going, I tend to shut down all but the primary ship building starports I have.  Saves money.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I ussually run a surplus at some point (lots of stock markets with a farm and morale building on each planet... except for very low PQ worlds). As such, I can ussually afford to keep all my ships up to date.

You might wish to try it.