Tiny ship has no icon when zoomed out

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I created a ship type with a Tiny base hull. On the main map, it looks ok when zoomed in. When I zoom out, other ships change from the rendered model to a plain 2-D hull-type icon. This can be seen with the 2 starting ships (colony and survey ship) when you zoom out.

Having no "zoomed out icon" for ships with a Tiny hull makes them extremely hard to see on the map. Sensor Drones are even harder to see.

- Proud Canadian
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
These will have icons in the final game...I think, ATM, the code for determining what type of icon to use is slightly buggy.  We'll look into it 
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Actually, BoogieBac is incorrect here. The icon code is unfinished. We didn't know what types of ships the user would make so we only coded in the most obvious ones or the ones we knew about. Now that we're starting to see unclassified ships, we can use this data to add more classifications.

ProudCanadian, can you tell us what you put on this tiny hull?
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hmmmm, I think it just had a missile rack, an engine, a sensor, and a couple life support gizmos (the things that extend ship range).
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
OK, that could fall into two categories. Fighter or scout depending on how strong the sensor is. I'll look into making a classification for this.