TCP/IP Games, Ship Designs lost? HELP ME BAD

Hotfoot · #1 November 8th, 2002, 06:09 AM

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Ship designs are not worth saving IMO, since the tech will be different between when you saved and when you load your empire.
You get stuck with a load of end-game designs you won't be able to build for 40 years.

Eh, I personally like to be able to start a game without having to constantly having to re-make the very basic designs from scratch. You know, the first colonizer, the first base space yard, the first population transport, that sort of thing. Granted, that's only a few designs, but it's nice to have.

Quikngruvn · #2 November 8th, 2002, 06:25 AM

Here's an idea that would require a hard-code change: using templates to design ships. You could create templates of, say, B/CC/LS + engines + sensors, that you could add into a new ship design. Could save a dozen clicks per design... no idea how much effort it would take to implement, though.

Quikngruvn

Hotfoot · #3 November 8th, 2002, 06:44 AM

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Originally posted by Quikngruvn:
Here's an idea that would require a hard-code change: using templates to design ships. You could create templates of, say, B/CC/LS + engines + sensors, that you could add into a new ship design. Could save a dozen clicks per design... no idea how much effort it would take to implement, though.

Quikngruvn

How about every time you make an empire file for a human, you make a high-tech game and create "template" ship designs just like that, using the lowest tech available, and then save the empire file. Then, once you get the shipbuilding tech to build the ships, you just upgrade the design so that it will automatically use the highest technology you have available at the time?

Quikngruvn · #4 November 8th, 2002, 07:05 AM

That could work too, and then copy the template to create a new design, changing the ship size as needed. More work before the game starts, but at least doable right now.

Quikngruvn

Hotfoot · #5 November 8th, 2002, 07:18 AM

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Originally posted by Quikngruvn:
That could work too, and then copy the template to create a new design, changing the ship size as needed. More work before the game starts, but at least doable right now.

Quikngruvn

Well, actually, if you just did it for all the empires you have and use now, it's not a problem. Plus, I would imagine that if you just edited an empire rather than creating a new one, the designs should stay, so you wouldn't have to do it each time you made a new race. ^_^