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Fenrisfil -> Custom Design Folder issue (6/4/2013 3:03:48 AM)
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I've been utilising the "design" folder for a long time for a personal mod (which I may or may not release in future, but this post isn't about that), with Legends although it certainly had a lot of issues, it mostly worked. I had custom designs for tech level 5 and 7 for most of my races (and designs from tech level 3 for a number of them as well). I did this partially to guide research, but mostly as it allowed me to use alternative ship images for those classes and add some variety and visual progress.
Anyway, with Shadows I had to start from scratch as the previous design files caused an error when I tried to load them. That I can live with.
The problem is that now each individual class will only load designs if there is a viable custom design that can be constructed with the current tech level. So if I want, for example to have a custom Capital Ship at tech level 7, I have to create viable Capital Ship designs all the way down to pre-warp tech levels or else the design will be ignored (unless I start at tech level 7, but who does that?)
Strangely the carrier designs show up. I'm guessing that's because the AI can't create designs for those ships prior to them being available via research. Anyway, it's very frustrating having to create races that can make shieldless, armorless and hyperdriveless capital ships at the start of the game.
I appreciate the design templates may have made custom designs partially redundant. But it hasn't made them totally redundant as they are the only way to deviate from the standard design or provide alternate ship pictures.
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