[Gimboid]

Component families relate to how SEIV Groups components

If u press the upgrade design button then u will see Groups in action as SEIV will attempt to find the most up to date components for all the component Groups on the ship u have selected.

Say for example u finish quantum engines 1 this turn. Then u press upgrade design for one of your ships. Now normally in seiv it upgrades the ships engines (+ any other more modern components) with the latest designs, thus giving u quantum engines on that ship design being upgraded.

If the quantum engines were a different component family to the others then when u pressed upgrade u would have to totally redesign the ship to put the engines on as it wouldnt automatically substitute the newer engines over the older engines on the ship.

[ 31 March 2002: Message edited by: Gimboid ]