Help With Ship Upgrading - I Am Super Confused

August 30, 2009 8:21 PM from

Grettings -

It seems I cannot quite understand the ship upgrade process. For some reason my simpleton brain cannot figure it out. So, here I am asking for help . . .

I will explain as best I can:

Let's say I have a ship. I will dub it "DethKillar." I want to upgrade it. So, I select said ship in the shipyard to upgrade. It is a stock ship, provided by the game, no upgrades whatsoever. I want it to shoot, so I add a lazer. I want it to have shields, I add a shield. I save as "DethKillar II." I can then upgrade select all other Dethkillars and upgrade them as well.

But, it seems when I select the DethKillar II to upgrade with more goodies, it starts with a defualt ship, sans shields, weapons, etc. It seems to be the hull only. Is that correct? Is it possible to upgrade an upgraded design? . . . If that makes sense.

What happens if I save it as the original filename after upgrading? If it is a standard Stardock provided ship will it overwrite that permanently in all future games? Also, I read that as new technologies are discovered, they are integrated into your ship designs. What that exactly means, I can only guess. For example: I discover a new shield technology, are all of the ships automatically upgraded with the improvement if they already have similar shields?

I know this is much more simple than I am making it. At any rate, thanks for any input.

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Reply #1 August 31, 2009 12:35 AM from

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To upgrade a ship, first design a ship with the same hull and desinate a unique name. Select upgrade on a target ship and select the newly designed ship. Any ship can be upgraded.

There is a man who frequents these forums with the handle DethAdder. He may take excecption to your naming convention. Then again, he may not. He could certainly offer a better explanation.

Reply #2 September 1, 2009 11:17 PM from

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There is an option in the options menue to remove all active ship components when upgrading a ship. The default setting is 'on'.

Mostly i prefer it to be on as well, but in some situations i will deactivate it if i am only upgrading some minor aspect of a ship.

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