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stumped?

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:20 pm
by freeboy
OK, I did watch the tutorials.. and after playing all this stuff works and is pretty straight forward EXCEIPT

How do I get new ship designs?
even in the tutorial I could not access the remove or add componenet buttons
I know it said I could not change an existing design, BUT I was on the EDIT sscrean.. what is up with this? I know it must be easy, but it simply is not working !!! others have designed ships.. so please help me do this BASIC thing!!!


help help help danger Will Robins danger, enemies approach and my fleet stinks lol

RE: stumped?

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:28 pm
by Joram
Hi Freeboy, wants you hit the Design button (the D next to the lightbulb), you see this screen. Click the "Add New" to add a new design. It also will help to uncheck the "show latest designs" in the top left of the window.

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RE: stumped?

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:29 pm
by idgar
You have to make a new design (from scratch or by using "copy as new") or upgrade an existing design (obsoleting it) and then editing the new design you get. Upgrade won't work unless you have researched at least one better component than the ones used in the old design.

RE: stumped?

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:37 pm
by freeboy
ok, wil lgo back in and see thanks

RE: stumped?

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:41 pm
by Redd
How do you change or add a name to a ship? Clicking on the field doesn't do anything, and I can't find a button.[:(]

RE: stumped?

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:48 pm
by Joram
Redd, you should be able to click on the box that I circled and enter a name. If you can't do that for some reason, it may be a bug. As you see, it works fine for me.


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RE: stumped?

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:51 pm
by Redd
Duh! Didn't see that but thought it must be something simple like that. Many thanks.[&o]

RE: stumped?

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 3:00 pm
by Wade1000
You can not edit an existing design because a ship of that design exists thus its design must remain in your data banks. :) So, the way is to "copy as new" the change and name the new design.

RE: stumped?

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 4:00 pm
by freeboy
My thought was to simply replace existing designs with newer componenets...
thanks agian, able to get new ship designs out