Stardock: Please explain how pre-designed ships are supposed to work

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I'm not sure how the developers created some of the special ships, like Colony Ship, but they do not seem to react well to upgrading. For instance, the Colony Ship has a special attribute "Colonize" associated with it, but does not have a Colony Module on the ship. Does that mean that the whole ship is specially designed for colonization and doesn't need a Colony Module? Also, if I make the initial Colony Ship design Obsolete, it disappears from the list and I can never create another Colony Ship design. Same goes for Transports.

Shouldn't these be HULL TYPES instead of special ships? Alternatively, could these designs be based on a Cargo Hull frame with the appropriate components? I don't understand why these ships cannot be recreated by the player using the basic hulls and components available.

Any clarification on this would be appreciated.

- Proud Canadian
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The colony ship, in the present state of the game, can not be built from scratch by the player. It stands to reason that attempting to upgrade it would be problematic if not impossible.

Brad has mentioned that the initial colony ship will be brought in line with the game as things roll on. Probably in beta 3.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think some sorta ship addition should be available so that we could add some modules that will allow us to upgrade Colony ships and transports to hold more civilians/troops.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Brad has mentioned that the initial colony ship will be brought in line with the game as things roll on. Probably in beta 3.

This is why I submitted this post. I wanted to know if these pre-designed ships (like Colony Ship) are just a temporary thing for Beta 2. I would MUCH prefer every ship in the game to be something that can be designed by the user from a base Hull and components, and not see any "special case" ships that cannot be upgraded or modified.

- Proud Canadian
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I think some sorta ship addition should be available so that we could add some modules that will allow us to upgrade Colony ships and transports to hold more civilians/troops.

If you add more colony modules, you will be able to add more colonists to the ship.

I would MUCH prefer every ship in the game to be something that can be designed by the user from a base Hull and components, and not see any "special case" ships that cannot be upgraded or modified.

I believe that there won't be any special case ships by the time we're done.