Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Aeson

Try setting the filter in the Design Screen to "All Designs," then open the ship design to see if there are any errors (red text) or warnings (yellow text; the only warning of any great importance is the one about the ship's size). Also, change your automation settings so that either ship design is manually controlled or the ship roles that you're playing with are set to manual upgrades. You can also try looking in the drop-down menus of the screen where you can purchase ships en masse; as long as your designs are buildable and not obsolete, they'll show up in the drop-down menu, though in order to be the default design, they need to be the most recently created non-obsolete buildable design.

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ORIGINAL: Hikikomori

I just tried it, manually upgraded a escort design, saved a template under escort. Without saving started a new game, loaded the design.





Tried again, this time i edited the first design, just changed the class to frigate. Saved the design, not the game, started a new game.





The .dwd files are under documents/my games/Distant Worlds Universe/settings

As far is i understand it, dwd files can contain a single design, or a bunch of them. You can shift/strg click some(designs, not dwds) and make a single save out of them.


EDIT: After rereading the thread my conclusion is that you may think with "save selected designs" the game means "save everything thats in the list".

It actually means "save selected designs" as in windows explorer selection for cut/copy.

One thing to note about DW is that is basically has the windows explorer as an game engine.