Beta 4 Bug: Removing component from ship design does not free space

I had the following problem when upgrading a ship design that I had created from scratch:

Upgrading tiny ship that I was using as a scout. I had researched some new improvements that were smaller than what was on the existing design. I clicked on one of the components and clicked the Remove button. It appeared to work, and the "space points left" bar was updated correctly. I repeated with another component. Now, I attempted to add a new component that the "space points left" bar showed exactly enough space for. I got the popup saying that I did not have enough room for the component.

NOTE: If I rebuild the whole ship design from scratch, using the same components, it works. This bug is related to the Upgrade interface not releasing space points when a component is removed. It is odd that the display DOES show the correct numbers during this process.

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kryo

Join Date 05/2003

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Yep, I've come across this myself. Brad said this is a known problem though and they are working on it.

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I've had this bug too... Once a custom ship is saved, I can go back in (upgrade) the saved custom ship and remove all the "extras" (i.e. eye candy components) but not the weapons, defenses, modules..etc. components. For example, In order to replace on laser on the old design with a newer laser, it seems to require me to "clear" the whole design and start over from scratch. The "remove" button doesn't work for anything except the "extras", and the other components such as weapons no longer appear in the little boxes (holders) below the 3d model, so it is hard to isolate those components in order to remove them.

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