Newly designed ships not saved unless game itself is saved

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I just started toying around the idea of creating my own ships last night. So I spent ten minutes doing it, saved the design, checked to make sure the design was still there when I went to the builder (it was), then quit the game. Next time I loaded my game, the ship wasn't available. The ship's data files were created and are located in the appropriate place in my WinXP user profile.

So I went and designed a brand new ship in the builder, but this time actually saved my game prior to exiting. And this time when I restarted the game and loaded the brand new save game, the ship was available.

I don't have to actually build the ship in my starport. I simply have to make sure I've saved the game I used to design the ship to ensure it's available in the future.

So note to everyone - make sure you save your game, not just your ship, after designing new ships.

-HM
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Oh yeah...got burned by this after spending an hour on a new dreadnought disign. Interestingly, the design is still in the ship classes folder, but not accessible unless I start a new game. can't figure that one out...
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ah, so you can actually see the ship if you create a new game and research the proper tech? Interesting.

-HM
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Save games save all of the ships and other data that exist at the time that the game was saved.  So if you design a ship, but then exit and load a save game that was created before the ship was designed, you will not be able to build that ship because it doesn't load it.

I don't have it read in new ships that have been designed since the game was saved because if they have the same name, it could mess up the save game.