New questions Design/auto/mass upgrade

[Saliddry33]

Hi the next noob questions rolling in [:D]

1)i like to design my own ships i know what to watch for
BUT is there an way that the ai only designs stations (resource shipyard and so on)

i would like to use my own ships instead (maybe+ defense bases)

atm i use copy as new (or so) rename the ship and design it mostly a bit bigger and heavy shielded with more punch so all the pirats are panta pudu

i mainly use frigs as patrol ships cause they dont steal troops (mostly my defense frigs are bigger and more expansive than the ai created destroyers and cruisers hehe)

2) is there an option to upgrade all my frigs to latest version?
like the advisor questions to refit all ships

i dont like it to scroll trough xxx ships ans select every single frig to upgrade

3) is there an help for question 3? when the advisor asks to upgrade all ships bases and so on

i mean i want my stations upgraded but i DONT want all my patrol ships EVERYTHING thats not in fleet incl scout(explorers with increased fuel range) to be downgraded to ai design

just upgrade them later to my new design where only the 1 researched part changed costs me double



are there options i didnt notice yet?

[Data]

1) yes, you can leave this on auto and still make your own designs; make sure when you create a new one to leave the general design on auto. But there is a known issue with the AI still prefering to upgrade the designs to it's own rather then yours

2) yes, you select all of them from the ships and bases screen and hit the upgrade button...then choose the design you want

3) that's been requested by some of us also, atm your best option is the same one as in 2 and the prerequisite for that is manual control over designing and upgrading.

[snakeplisskin]

It is the most annoying thing in the game when you have your fleet of capital ships all fueled up, loaded with troops, and ready to go... Then you notice that they were upgraded to a wimpy "stock" AI design instead of your own design.

I used to think when I was asked to "retrofit" my ships, they would only upgrade the new parts. IE. I have researched new shields, and I'm prompted to update the shields. I choose "Yes", because naturally I want all of my ships to be retrofitted with the latest and greatest equipment. Then I realized that it wasn't just upgrading to my new shields and equipment that is newly researched. It's upgrading the entire ship to an AI design, that I was trying to avoid!

Bad game mechanic!

[Data]

It's an old issue so I may not remember correctly but obsoliting / deleting all the AI designs for that class of ships should force the AI to upgrade them to your design