custom ships question

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If I add a ship design (designs as in components, weapons, etc, not the fluff) and they appear for me to build in game, they don't ever upgrade.  The stock ships upgrade to Mark II, Mark III, etc. as you increase your tech but the "custom" ones don't.  Is it possible to do this with the custom ship designs?  I've tried creating multiple version of a ship with what I viewed as "upgrades", that didn't work.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Upgrading the design from the Shipyard will automatically change what the planets are building, but won't auto-upgrade ships already built.  You need to do that yourself; though you can have a whole class upgrade by checking the 'upgrade all ships of this class' box on the upgrade screen.  Do that in stages for ships you've built large numbers of though -- it can get really spendy.  

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

SCampb29 is correct.

Note, though, that upgrading to the latest tech is not always a good thing.  At least, that is the case in DA, which is what I play.

Consider ion engines.  I research impulse engines for the speed boost that ALL ships get - no matter what engine they use.  However, I keep using ion engines.  Compare the cost and space per engine speed unit and you will see what I mean.

There are other such cases, as well.

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