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So I made myself an afternoon and started an all-tech human empire to create a basic ship design of every shiptype in the game. Because when I have the automation for ship editors turned off, I don't always know if I have to create a new ship or base or something.


I saved that list, I tried to load that list in a new pre-warp game and got nothing, even when I set both options to everything.
A sub-list was loadable, but not the complete list.

I made a new all-tech game and here I could load my list of designs, why is that ?

Some questions:

1) Do you mean your higher-tech designs aren't showing on the list, or you are not seeing the ones you designed specifically for Pre-Warp.

2) Did you make ship designs for every size and hull type? If you based a design on a hull you don't have yet, then it won't be buildable until you research that.

3) Do your designs include techs you haven't researched yet? Same as 2)

4) Have you tried looking at "All Designs"? If your ships are not-buildable due to 2) and 3) they'll be shown here.

5) Can you find the list file in your /data subfolder? (I THINK that's where it gets saved)

5) Yes I can find the files, like I said, I can load them from the list.
The folder is DW2\data\designs
Files are there, if you want to try.

4.) No designs are shown, and I set it to all designs//all types.
And I did make a design for every size and hulltype, except the dreadnought and fleet carrier, because this one had to be researched and I was not smart enough to give me some colonies
So an all-tech / single-world start is not advisable, you can't afford even a basic starport

1+2+3 ) Higher Tech Designs, my designs hold techs that are not researched yet,
I wanted to downgrade them in the new game instead of searching through the full endgame component list.
But normally I can see designs of captured or repaired ships as well, even if they have unresearched tech.

This method worked pretty good in DWU, just hit auto-upgrade and the components are set to latest available components.