Apologies, I thought the post meant base, so no, I at least haven't tested it on a ship.

Medical and recreation do, I don't know about commerce. But yeah, I use a lightweight defense base design, including med and rec, for all new colonies.

Thank you guys, this I can work with. At least I am not going mad .

Yep, if they have the latest design no design is selectable in the drop down so you can't actually give them the order to retrofit.

<r> Any military design, so say I had ten escorts, ten frigates, ten destroyers, ten cruisers and ten capital ships. I researched, for example, Shaterforce lasers, and updated all designs to replace the old blasters. At the point in the game I was I had about 30 colonies (with only seven odd ...

1. Definitely a newer design, if you focus on the ship it has the little "up arrow upgrade icon".
2. Over a million in the bank, with the retrofit costing ~1000.

So it's something else. I am probably doing something stupid, I just don't know what .

Thanks guys, the shift-click will certainly help. What's weird (or at least what I am not getting), is why ships I manually tell to retrofit (choosing the latest design), don't actually retrofit....

<t> Hi all,<br/>
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I'm really struggling to get my head around how upgrades / retrofits work, so would welcome some advice. To set the scene:-<br/>
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* I design ships and bases myself.<br/>
* I never use the "retrofit adviser", having seen it simply ignore my designs in the past.<br ...