Ship Icons are all 'scout'?

I've been trying to figure out how the game decides to assign the different icons. I get a lot of Scouts too, although not all.

I've gotten this with mods, but not stock race/ship designs.

Yes stock ship/race seems to be fine... Since I have all of mine customer made, its a bit messy....

A fellow forum member mentioned this is a current GCIII limitation and there is a bug open to the developers.

If your talking about the ship icons for when you are zoomed out they've always been the same scout ship icons....?

Hi Echillion... yes all my custom ships are scout ship icons when I zoom out.... well.. almost all of them...

I was told by Mr. Startrek this is the current limitation on custom ships....  Hopefully they will fix this in the final 1.1 release.  I am having a fun time distnguishing different ships

I don't think I am getting that. My custom colony ships and constructors don't look like scout icons.

Thanks Franco fx....

I can't figure out why my icons are all scouts.  Mr. Startrek at one point stated there was a bug in the game and so the game defaulted to all scout icons.

I think most of my icons were scouts, but some are different...

I think a few people commented at the top they are seeing this as well, but if this is not a widespread problem, then I may have a hard time getting support from dev.

I will try to post pictures later.

I've had this with stock Terran ships as all my player designs are saved as templates only so its more of a widespread bug than they think?

Thx for posting this, I'm getting the same results, and always wanted to post it, but regularly forgot to do so.

I always expected that some type of ship icon is directly associated to the ship class I select for my custom ships in the editor. Yet my custom ships never get the icons I see on vanilla ship classes, which is quite a pity, as those icons could be a great visual help if they were used correctly.

Thanks for posting.

As I play more, I realized it is NOT all scout icons, but its definitely not assigning the right icons...

So far the majority of my ships has scout icons (including my survery ships, colony ships, construction ships, etc )...

but my beam destroyer has the survey icon (no it does not have the survey modules)

and my prototype ships (the ones that requires rare minerals like Eluerium) has the somewhat correct attackers icons....

Playing on a huge map it is getting difficult... For now I have to rename my fleets so I know what they are when I zoomed out.

I think not everyone is having this problems (or not everyone is playing with an antire fleet of custom design ships)....  but if anyone has any ideas of a fix/workaround, hack the code etc I am all ears... 

Doing some testing here.

If I create a ship without any components, it correctly uses the scout icon.

http://screencast.com/t/sJBrIYD5WE7

My Harbinger empty is a new ship desing without an components.

My Harbinger Torpedo is exactly the same ship, but with Torpedos.

http://screencast.com/t/l6wCwYGBpjoj

It correctly uses the right icon.

I made another with a Particle beam that works fine.

http://screencast.com/t/lpRtje7ECruJ

I tried saving and loading, everything still looks right.

So I'm unable to reproduce the issue. If anyone has a ship with components thats showing up as a scout I'm happy to check it out and see why its using the wrong icon. Just link it here or send it to me in PM and I will check it out.

Thanks for trying.  The ones I got generally has beam, missile/torpedoes and kinetic weapons... Don't know if that matters.

I have your emails, I will send you a couple of ships I got that's having this issue.

thanks

Let me also see if I can reproduce what you did Derek. 

I will try the following:

1. Create a new ship from scratch and add with one weapon only

2. Use one of the existing template and add weapon only

3. Disarm one of my customer ship and rearm with just one weapon

Hopefully we can narrow down the issue, I will still send you what I got tongiht

Huge thanks to macrossVFX222. I was able to duplicate this with the ships he sent me and figure out what is happening.

The ships icon is assigned when the ship is saved. But if the ship design is upgraded after that, the icon isn't updated. So if you created that design first without any components, then added Lasers, it will still always show with a scout icon.

The fix is relatively straightforward, we will just update the icon whenever you modify the ship design. This does mean that you will need ot go into any broken ship and resave it to get the fix (though you don't need to remake the ship).

Thanks again for the help. This fix is scheduled to be included in patch 1.2.

Great news... thanks for checking it out!

Any work-around meanwhile?  If not any ETA for 1.2?  (I am going to assume a couple of months?)

Again thanks for your help.

1.2 will be in August. No, there isn't a good workaround (you can remake the ships, but that really stinks).

Ok waiting til August it is

Derek,

Looks like 1.2 patch notes is out.  Can you confirm the scout icon fix is in 1.2?  I don't see it in the release notes.

thanks

I have the same issue sometimes,

I created a custom colonizer for instance, and it shows me the constructor icon. It gets frustrating when you send your colonizers to a location, where you wanted to construct a base, because of the icon and then the planet gets colonized by the AI.

Looks like for the most part it was fixed.  I notice a couple of odd ones

1) Survey module is not giving the right icon <- workaround (scout icon is okay for me for this)

2) Drone module is not giving the right icon <- workaround (not using drone)

3) Survey ship icon sometimes randomly show up on my ship without survey modules (add weapons... haa haa)

But other than that, seems to behave better. I now have issues with some of my designs NOT keeping their proper sizes