Obsolete ships

Elowan · #1 August 12th, 2002, 07:10 PM

When you make a ship 'obsolete' - it says that these will be deleted. Is this deletion occurring just in the present game or in your *.emp file as well.

[ August 12, 2002, 18:10: Message edited by: Elowan ]

Phoenix-D · #2 August 12th, 2002, 07:28 PM

The .emp file isn't touched until you save to it.

Phoenix-D

Elowan · #3 August 13th, 2002, 12:33 AM

Hmmm. That does not bode well. Because if I make another design ...

Yea! I've researched TUBS!!!

... and save to my emp file, then my previous Versions of BUCKETS which I've checked as obsolete (so as NOT to clutter up the list) will disappear from my peerless *.emp file! Come next game I'll have to redesign all my BUCKETS again! Bummer!

oleg · #4 August 14th, 2002, 01:07 AM

Obsolete ship designs can be saved in .emp file.
When you save empire, you save all _visible_ designs. Thus, set "show obsolete" in design sheet. They all will be saved.

There is a catch though. Some _very_ old obsolete designs can get lost during the game. I do not know what is the time(?), research level (?) threshhold for becomming "completely" obsolete.

Suicide Junkie · #5 August 13th, 2002, 04:10 PM

A design will be deleted when all of the following conditions are true:

The design is marked obsolete
There are zero vehicles of that type owned by any empire in the game
The turn is being processed. (Press end turn)
A new year is starting. (EG: 2406.0)

DirectorTsaarx · #6 January 23rd, 2003, 10:06 PM

Bumping this topic because of relevance to discussion in the "next patch" thread...