Upgrading ships, etc?

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You may run into a couple of snafus while trying to upgrade the design of a ship though... Shield 1's are lighter than any other shield generator, and Shield Regen V's are heavier than other Regen's. This means you have to shuffle around some parts to get things to fit...

On the 'cost more than 50%' bit I've noticed this happen most often when you try to upgrade a ship with Bridge/Crew/Life Support to a computer-controlled ship. One way I've found around this is to make a ship design that's partway in cost between the ship I have and the ship I want. Then I retrofit my ship to the 'intermediate' design and then retrofit again to the new design (Which is where I noticed that in the patch before the current one, that mysetriously after retrofitting twice like that, a bunch of the components were magically fixed already!)

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