refiting an existing ship

[Slynky]

And, I'll add a comment that happened to me. I don't know if it was a bug but just be aware of it.

Lots of times, when you get a new colonizing ability, you need to create new ships. If you do it the way I do it, then you click on the existing colony design, click copy, delete the existing colony module, and add the new colony module. And, DUH!, save with a new name.

Then, for exisitng colony ships sitting over a yard, you do a retrofit to the new colony design. And here is the problem I experienced: It came back with a strange message saying the refit failed. I thought was because the module was too big of an item to retrofit. What I DID learn, though, was that if the new design had the new colony module in the exact position as the old colony module (and not at the end...where it goes when you just add it), the retrofit worked perfectly.

So, remember that little quirk. Of course, it may have just been something wrong with my patch level but I can tell you for sure...I always build my new colony ships so they look exactly like the older colony ship except for the colony module in "slot" #1.