Autoship designer weirdness

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I am playing my first official release game and noticed something strange.  I am about mid-game, have some lasers, guns etc researched.  The AI is autodesigning ships I reckon because I see things like Battle Axe M6 with a good mix of lasers and missles.

I decided to  upgrade my Battle Axe M6 (option to remove components is not checked).  When I do this I see something really strange....

It says that the ship has 85/67 components installed!?  If I select and item to remove then select a new component to install the bar then turns red and and wont let me install the item even though its' size is less than the item I removed.

It seems as if the auto ship designer is being allowed to add more items to a design than I could.

 

Is this a bug?

Thanks

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hm. Here's a question I have sorta related... while the ship designer will automatically make say, Defender class ships for me, I don't get a default Defender ship unlocked when I unlock 'Space Weapons' or whatever tech it was.

Is that supposed to happen? I never seem to get any armed ships except auto-designed ones. I mean, I can still access them from the Templates, but the normal ones don't show up.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Is this a bug?


i found this once in the beta and reported it - so i think it might be.

ChristopherRobin, i believe the autodesign ships replace the default ships

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
SgtSmithy, it's happened to me a few times as well. It's usually not a huge problem, but it does make me wonder if the AI's ships are similarly over-extended.

ChristopherRobin, You should be able to find the default ships with the templates.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, but the template versions remove all the components when you upgrade them, even if you turned that option off.