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Hey guys, during the course of battle, I modified one of my 'tugs' in the design editor to be armed. I guess I am getting a little tired of Kaltor's chewing up my construction ships...
I have never had any problems with that image file before. But when I modified the design for the contruction ship to carry weapons, the first time I clicked on it, I got one of those image errors I have not received in a very, very long time...
You know the error: the screen turns white with a great big red X in the middle and the 3 other windows: message, galaxy and fleet/ship window still intact..
Have you guys had any problems like that.
I have never ever had that image give me problems until I actually, in the game and in the design editor, armed the construction ship. It blew up twice.

Yup, I get that every time I arm my mining ships. Before the RotS I got that white-screen-red-X error quite often. I never tried arming my construction ships though. Maybe, DW developers thought, that arming civilans is not a good idea. Apparently,the only good thing in this world that can came out of arming miners is the game 'Red Faction'.

I also think this is hard coded atm

ORIGINAL: Data

I also think this is hard coded atm

It maybe the time of the day, but for some reason you lost me after 'is' atm?

Strange...
I've never got this problem and I arm my civilian ships all the time. Miners, transports and passenger ships ALWAYS get the state-of-the-art torpedo launcha if they are serving under my command. Construction ships may even get hangar or two if I'm feeling to it. No problems at all.

From what I've seen, civilian ships, apart from construction ship, can only have one (1) weapon on their design.

at the moment
modding wishful thinking...mwt [:D]

ORIGINAL: J HG T

Strange...
I've never got this problem and I arm my civilian ships all the time. Miners, transports and passenger ships ALWAYS get the state-of-the-art torpedo launcha if they are serving under my command. Construction ships may even get hangar or two if I'm feeling to it. No problems at all.

From what I've seen, civilian ships, apart from construction ship, can only have one (1) weapon on their design.

I agree with J on this. I've tested DW both vanilla and with mod themes, and I've never had problems
with arming the mining ship, passenger ships or any size transport. The only thing is they can only
be armed with one weapon. I haven't ever put a fighter bay on a constructor yet though (will try that
one tonight)! [:)]

Like having constructor shuttles on CS....only they destroy instead of building.

Should I report this or not?
I am getting conflicting reports.
I cannot imagine what arming a ship would do to cause a graphics abend... it makes no sense to me at all (as an ex-programmer).

When in doubt, report [;)]