Ship Prototypes

geoschmo · #1 September 13th, 2002, 08:58 PM

The main difference is that you can edit a prototype design. Once you add one to a queue or build one you cannot edit it anymore. You can copy it or upgrade it, but these make new designs.

Geoschmo

Arkcon · #2 September 13th, 2002, 09:07 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
The main difference is that you can edit a prototype design. Once you add one to a queue or build one you cannot edit it anymore. You can copy it or upgrade it, but these make new designs.

Geoschmo

I dunno, I think the purpose of the PROTOTYPE label is to let you know that you can edit it. One you add it to a queue, if if you take it off, it's no longer a prototype and can't be edited.

geoschmo · #3 September 13th, 2002, 09:12 PM

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Originally posted by Arkcon:

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
The main difference is that you can edit a prototype design. Once you add one to a queue or build one you cannot edit it anymore. You can copy it or upgrade it, but these make new designs.

Geoschmo

I dunno, I think the purpose of the PROTOTYPE label is to let you know that you can edit it. One you add it to a queue, if if you take it off, it's no longer a prototype and can't be edited.

Uhhhh, is it just me or isn't that exactly what I said?

Puke · #4 September 13th, 2002, 09:16 PM

that is what you said, but he did add some misinformation to it. if you take a design off of a queue the same turn that you put it on, you can then go back and edit it.

Atrocities · #5 September 13th, 2002, 09:21 PM

Who here has ever cried over the loss of 0001 ship? Not me........

All though if I have a ship that is 0001 or even 0002 for a long time, I will send it to the homeworld and mothball it. For historical sake.

Arkcon · #6 September 13th, 2002, 10:08 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Uhhhh, is it just me or isn't that exactly what I said?

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Sheesh. Sorry Geo. I just flaked out there for a minute. I just re-caffinated. But I'll stop posting for today anyway. 'Tho I'm pretty sure I had the game refuse to allow me to edit a ship that had been in a queue, even if it's out of the queue. That was for one of the many times I made an engine-less stellar manipulator.

Suicide Junkie · #7 September 13th, 2002, 10:41 PM

Is there a difference between pulling a prototype out of a queue on the turn you put it in, and trying to pull it out & edit a few turns later?

Also remember that you have to hunt down every copy in any build queue, even if it is not at the front!