Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

retrofitting problem

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Distant Worlds 1 Series >> The War Room >> retrofitting problem Page: [1]
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
retrofitting problem - 8/20/2011 7:54:50 PM   
trogdor826

 

Posts: 10
Joined: 7/30/2011
Status: offline 		i have designed my own carriers and so on but when i tell them to retrofit they go back to basic design for that ship class. is there a way so it wont do that when you hit retrofit ship/fleet

_____________________________

ITS TROGDOR!! Burninating the country side, Burninating all the peasants, Burninating all the people!! Cause its TROGDOOOOR!!!
Post #: 1
RE: retrofitting problem - 8/20/2011 7:56:19 PM   
adecoy95


Posts: 420
Joined: 3/26/2010
Status: offline 		go into the ship design menu and obsolete all the other ships of that class, it should cause it to retrofit to the only available design

(in reply to trogdor826)
Post #: 2
RE: retrofitting problem - 8/20/2011 7:59:11 PM   
Data


Posts: 3909
Joined: 1/3/2011
Status: offline 		kinda restrictive but we don't have ship classes and subclasses atm to allow this kind of management

_____________________________

...Igniting stellar cores....Recharging reactors...Recalibrating hyperdrives....

(in reply to adecoy95)
Post #: 3
RE: retrofitting problem - 8/20/2011 8:03:06 PM   
trogdor826

 

Posts: 10
Joined: 7/30/2011
Status: offline 		classes such as capital and frigate, not like dreadnaugt and carrier

_____________________________

ITS TROGDOR!! Burninating the country side, Burninating all the peasants, Burninating all the people!! Cause its TROGDOOOOR!!!

(in reply to Data)
Post #: 4
RE: retrofitting problem - 8/20/2011 8:04:31 PM   
trogdor826

 

Posts: 10
Joined: 7/30/2011
Status: offline 		and adecoy thanks, saves me a pain from having to rebuild all my capitals.

_____________________________

ITS TROGDOR!! Burninating the country side, Burninating all the peasants, Burninating all the people!! Cause its TROGDOOOOR!!!

(in reply to trogdor826)
Post #: 5
RE: retrofitting problem - 12/22/2011 5:53:39 AM   
Gandalf


Posts: 364
Joined: 12/15/2010
From: Jefferson City, MO
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: adecoy95

go into the ship design menu and obsolete all the other ships of that class, it should cause it to retrofit to the only available design


Suppose you have a couple of slightly different designs of the same class that you want to work with. Using your suggestion of obsoleting all but one, you tell one of your older ships of that class to retrofit to the one you specifically left available. Shortly, thereafter, you have another ship of the same class that you want retrofitted to a slightly different spec. At that point, can you obsolete the first retrofitted design in favor of the second design without affecting the retrofitting of the first ship in progress or do you have to wait until the retrofitting of the first ship is totally complete before initiating the retrofitting of the second ship to the different design?

(in reply to adecoy95)
Post #: 6
RE: retrofitting problem - 12/22/2011 10:16:41 AM   
2ndACR


Posts: 5665
Joined: 8/31/2003
From: Irving,Tx
Status: offline 		Just be careful when upgrading. The AI just loves the fusion reactor and calista drive. Even though I have Quantum and Equinox.

(in reply to Gandalf)
Post #: 7
RE: retrofitting problem - 12/22/2011 2:20:28 PM   
sbach2o

 

Posts: 378
Joined: 3/26/2010
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Gandalf

Suppose you have a couple of slightly different designs of the same class that you want to work with. Using your suggestion of obsoleting all but one, you tell one of your older ships of that class to retrofit to the one you specifically left available. Shortly, thereafter, you have another ship of the same class that you want retrofitted to a slightly different spec. At that point, can you obsolete the first retrofitted design in favor of the second design without affecting the retrofitting of the first ship in progress or do you have to wait until the retrofitting of the first ship is totally complete before initiating the retrofitting of the second ship to the different design?


Once a retrofit order is issued, it *should* be possible to obsolete the design something is retrofitting to.

I have had some weird effect once, though: retrofitting a Small Space Port to a Medium design changed only the name of the design in that instance, the installation was still a very outdated Small design when finished - number of construction yards and everything else remained that of a Small port. When I tried to rectify the situation, the right-click retrofit menu showed only my current Large and Small designs. So somehow the game was assuming the retrofit had succeeded while it clearly didn't.

I can only guess how that came to pass, and it might be connected to obsoleting a design while a retrofit order was being performed, More likely it was a completely different issue. I am not even sure the design the Space Port was supposed to retrofit to was at any time obsoleted. I'd have issued a bug report, if there had been any information available at the time I discovered that mishap, but there's virtually nothing I have in hand.

So, that being said, I am generally cautious with repeatedly (un-)obsoleting a given design. For ships, I rather issue all retrofit orders manually via the ships and bases screen. I keep all current variants of a ship class unobsolted. There are usually at most two such variants. I (multi-) select what I want to retrofit to the same design in the list of military ships, and when I click the 'Retrofit' button, I select the desired design from the list. That's it.

< Message edited by sbach2o -- 12/22/2011 2:23:18 PM >

(in reply to Gandalf)
Post #: 8
RE: retrofitting problem - 12/22/2011 10:42:00 PM   
balto

 

Posts: 1123
Joined: 3/4/2006
From: Maryland
Status: offline 		If you do manual ship design, you will never have any of these problems.., but it will ramp up the micromanagment 1000 times. The manual design of ships is the best part of Distant Worlds.

I think in time the AUTO feature will work better with patches, but until then.., put it on manual ship design and flush your real life down the toilet.., this game will suck you in.., like a black hole. Wow, that is pretty good.., "this game sucks you in like a black hole." Erik, do I get a discount on the next DW expansion for that?

< Message edited by balto -- 12/22/2011 10:44:23 PM >

(in reply to sbach2o)
Post #: 9
RE: retrofitting problem - 12/23/2011 2:02:32 AM   
Bentley264


Posts: 32
Joined: 1/14/2011
Status: offline 		Simply hit F11, sort the ships by type, select whichever and hit retrofit to latest design. If it is all the same ship, you pick which design to retrofit too.


_____________________________

Bob

(in reply to balto)
Post #: 10
RE: retrofitting problem - 1/5/2012 3:22:08 AM   
aprezto


Posts: 824
Joined: 1/29/2009
Status: offline 		I use a naming convention to help with this:

A destroyer that is missile oriented might be called "Catapult" - but has the postscript: M
A destroyer that is a torpedo boat might be called "Kaiser" - but has postscript: T

This helps when I go to upgrade manually changed designs but even more when it comes to retrofiting.

Upgrading I use the non-obsolete filter and then the sub-category filter to find all destroyers. I'll then obsolete the old design (asterix on far left of the DD's row), and then auto-update. I'll then edit the new design for a once over - kind of things I'm looking for is the autoupdate adding the wrong reactor, shield, hyperdrive for my design philisophy this game.
When it comes to retrofitting all types with designs I go to the ships screen (not sure of keyboard shortcut), filter on type - this brings up all the destroyers. I then highlight all the DDs of postscript M, T etc and upgrade them with the corresponding updated blueprint.
Without this postscript I could never quite remember which name I'd given to which design and might start changing the composition of fleets, that may have been set up to be long range installation busters but now have DDs with short range beams!!
I still think this clunky, but it's what I do.

_____________________________



Image courtesy of Divepac

(in reply to Bentley264)
Post #: 11
RE: retrofitting problem - 1/6/2012 6:54:47 PM   
Jerkface

 

Posts: 28
Joined: 12/6/2011
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: 2ndACR

Just be careful when upgrading. The AI just loves the fusion reactor and calista drive. Even though I have Quantum and Equinox.


Yes, the UI needs some way to say "never use this component, ever."
This would work for certain weapons as well...

(in reply to 2ndACR)
Post #: 12
Page:   [1]
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Distant Worlds 1 Series >> The War Room >> retrofitting problem Page: [1]
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

3.375