[geoschmo]

If your ship designs are not showing up at all, then mounts are not the problem. Your designs with mounts will still show up at the begning of the game, but the designs will be labeled with "(insufficent technology)" in the design window and you will not be able to put them in the build queue, but they will still show up in the game.

The problem is probably a mod mismatch issue. If you have designs made with stock or with one mod, and then you try to use that empire file in another mod, the game will analyze the designs and anything that is invalid because of components or mounts that don't exsist in the new mod, or are different prices in the two mods will be discarded from the empire file. Anything that is a valid design and costs the same to build in both mods will remain in your design list.

This was intentionally added to the code a while back to close a design loophole that some players were usign to cheat in MP games.

If however you are using the same mod, I have no clue what is going on. As Fyron says, as long as you are using the same mod and not editing the empire during game setup there should be no problem.

Geoschmo