Upgrading ships, etc?

DirectorTsaarx · #1 February 27th, 2001, 04:18 PM

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Originally posted by Codo:
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...
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Codo

Also watch out for standard armor getting "upgraded" to Emissive Armor. And regular Shield V's (300 pts. each, IIRC) being upgraded to Phased Shield I's (75 pts. each, IIRC).

Spyder · #2 February 27th, 2001, 04:22 PM

I have also seen components randomly added when I did an upgrade....so, when you do an upgrade on an existing ship design, look it over carefully and make sure that you got what you expected.

Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

DirectorTsaarx · #3 February 27th, 2001, 09:04 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Spyder:
I have also seen components randomly added when I did an upgrade....so, when you do an upgrade on an existing ship design, look it over carefully and make sure that you got what you expected.

Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

They fixed a couple of those in the 1.19 patch (specifically, small armor was being upgraded to small combat sensors or vice versa). You might want to document any others you've found & send them to MM...

derb · #4 April 23rd, 2001, 06:43 PM

One possible snafu - I noticed after upgrading a unit that I was told I needed to repair the upgraded component. Unfortunately, I had not yet researched repair!

Taqwus · #5 April 23rd, 2001, 07:22 PM

Ah. But you *do* have a shipyard/spaceyard, or did, anyway -- you needed one to refit. Both the facility and the component can repair damaged components; Repair tech just gets you a smaller, more efficient repair component.

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Nitram Draw · #6 April 23rd, 2001, 07:49 PM

Unless of course you upgrade you shipyard component on a base shipyard

Suicide Junkie · #7 April 23rd, 2001, 08:04 PM

Component: Space Yard 1
repairs at least 3 per turn.

Unless you've got some sort of mod, any space yard will have some repair ability.

quote:
Unless of course you upgrade you shipyard component on a base shipyard

Doing that directly is silly.

Start with SY1.

Retro to SY1 +repair comp.
Fix repair comp
Retro to SY3 + repair comp.
Fix SY3
retro to SY3 only.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 23 April 2001).]