I think I've uncovered another clue in the mystery of how ships behave.
It appears that when following individual orders (rather than fleet orders), a ship which has been retrofitted uses the strategy for its
original design, rather than the one for its
current configuration.
If this observation is correct, it also explains why some obsolete designs stay on the ship list long after you've retrofitted/scrapped all the old Versions; the design would still be considered "active" as long as any of the original hulls are still in service.
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Cap'n Q
My first mod!
Hypermaze quadrant
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"