[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Wardad:
I ran into this problem before and had my ships retrofited to my opponants design.

I worked around it by:
FIRST placing the new design in a planets build que. It does not have to be built or worked on and can be removed on another turn.
NEXT I gave the order for retrofiting.

I wonder if this technique would work now?

That probably would work. Being in a build queue seems to "anchor" the design and make sure Se4 finds an index for it. As shown by the fact that two empires can make designs the same turn and both can build them succesfully. It doesn't suffer from the same symptom as retrofits.

Thanks Wardad, that's three workarounds. And that one should work all the time and not need any pre-planning. The only drawback being the need to have a free space yard slot. Not a sure thing in every game, especially early on.

Geoschmo