What Fyron is trying to teel is that SEIV does NOT save designs when you save empire in game set-up window. The popping question "do you want to save designs ?" simply pulls your leg. To save empire WITH ship designs, you must start the game, then press F2, click "save empire" and then confirm to save shipdesigns.
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