upgrade facilities prob...
 

Is this a know issue that when you want to upgrade for example your Space Yard 1 to SY2 but have a few more facilities to build before the upgrade and then you research SY3. Hit upgrade facilities button and in your build queue there are both upgrades, i.e. SY2 and SY3.
To make it clear - the build queue looks like that:
some facilities
some facilities
some facilities
upgrade to Space Yard 2
some facilities
upgrade to Space Yard 3
Shouldn't it be enough to upgrade SY1 to SY3 at once? IIRC it is enough. And it is annoying to waste time & resources for unnecessary builds.

Re: upgrade facilities prob...
 

I asked this very same question so very long ago. The game has to go through the motions of an upgrade. Even though you have SY 3 researched, the game still has to up grade to SY 2 before it can go to SY 3.

You know, 1 before 2, before 3 etc. The work around should be that to go from a SY 1 to SY 3 should cost a hell of a lot more in resources than it would to go from a SY 1 to 2 then to 3.

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What you ask for would be a intelligent queue search for older upgrade items with automatical remove?
I do not use the upgrade all facilities button that often, mostly just once in case of research III is completed.
Could be requested, I think.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Is this really true???
I don't belive so!

I use to upgarde from SY1 to 3 at once.
I've had these bad ques myself and the only way to correct it is to manually search all ques and remove the upgrade to SY2.
If anyone found another way I'm interested aswell.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Correct. You can not even choose upgrades to a lower level if you want to, in case of you already have researched SY3.

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As far as I recall, the 'upgrade all' button in the space yards window does exactly this. I haven't checked in a while so I might be mis-remembering. Unfortunately, there is no way to make it do ONLY this. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif You have to upgrae every possible facility on every planet in your epire to get this 'automatic' substitution. I've ben asking him to let us select planets like we do for multi-build, or maybe even to select which facilities to upgrade.

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if i read the list correctly you probably researched level 2 then hit upgrade all then when level 3 came about you hit upgrade all again. i have this same problem as it does not delete or replace any existing upgrade commands when you do this. if you wait until you gain level 3 before upgrading then i will only give you level 3 upgrade. the exception i have noticed is if you are actually building the facility then it will upgrade that and not put a que for the upgrade. it is really annoying to have to go back and manually clean out the que lists.

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I've seen this kind of thing a lot. For example :-

Build queue:
Mineral Miner I
Mineral Miner I
Mineral Miner I
Mineral Miner I
Mineral Miner I

A couple of turns later, after researching Mineral Miner IIs and hitting the upgrade-all-facilities button, the queue looks like this:

Mineral Miner II
Mineral Miner II
Mineral Miner II
Upgrade Mineral Miner II x5

Then again after researching Mineral Miner IIIs a couple of turns later:

Mineral Miner III
Upgrade Mineral Miner II x5
Upgrade Mineral Miner III x7

I get round this by researching both extra levels in quick succession and only then hitting upgrade. Or by going through all the planets removing the first upgrade from the build queue http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif .

Would be great if the upgrade-all button could upgrade the upgrade... but I can see that could be a headache to program, as you'd have to scan the queue as well as the facilities list.

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Upgrading the upgrade is not what the function was written to do, so it does not do that. It would require some fundamental code changes to that function to make it do that. This would be a good thing to fix though. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: upgrade facilities prob...
 

yea go in and delete the upgrade to level 2...