[Rollo]

Yeah, there is a hard code thing that will use majority components, shields, and armor to fill up designs (very nice feature). I assume the AI ignores the weapon-platforms-only restriction and will make an illegal design. Does your ground base armor have the armor ability? If yes, try remove that. Maybe the AI will not use it anymore to fill up any type of design. The armor abilty will not be needed by the weapon platforms anyways, since there is no component damage just the total hitpoints. In order to put the ground armor on the WP use a bogus ability and fill the WP with:

...
Num Misc Abilities := x
...
Misc Ability x Name := <bogus ability>
Misc Ability x Spaces Per One := 5

Not a pretty solution, but it might work.

Rollo