DW's got me thinking... Best/worst ship design screens ever??

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I just wish, for the love of all that is good and holy, that someday there'd be an option to NOT HAVE TO ADD EVERY FREAKIN' MANDATORY COMPONENT to a new design - why can't they just be 'there' already?
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ORIGINAL: Texashawk

I just wish, for the love of all that is good and holy, that someday there'd be an option to NOT HAVE TO ADD EVERY FREAKIN' MANDATORY COMPONENT to a new design - why can't they just be 'there' already?

I understand how this can be a pain with designing a while new class, however I just copy as new when I am merely upgrading components.
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Makes sense to me

I think one simple way of doing it would be
If you double click, it adds a single component like now
But if you drag and drop, a pop-up box crops up that allows to choose how many of that component you would like


great suggestion
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I've had an issue with the design screen - all the icons of the ion components (ion cannon, defense) and ship scanning, scan jamming etc are just grey boxes with a yellow "B" in the middle. Has anyone else had this issue? It's not only the design screen but also on the research screen.
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I also got the "B" for ion techs and the rest. Funny, 'cause in Galactopedia all these have proper icon like the rest. Small bug maybe?
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just cheked, same here
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ORIGINAL: J HG T

I also got the "B" for ion techs and the rest. Funny, 'cause in Galactopedia all these have proper icon like the rest. Small bug maybe?

I thought it was pretty strange to have 'B' to represent ion weapons. Bug report, anyone? [:'(]
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i chicken away and put the work on Webbco, he noticed this first
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Ok, ok...
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