How to: Get rid of old ship designs?

[BloodyRanger]

I was wondering if there was a way to permanently get rid of old ship designs that are associated with an empire. Its annoying to start playing with 50 different designs that you won't be able to use because of insufficient tech...

Thanks in advance

[Puke]

you can obsolete them, and click on the 'hide obsolete' button to make them disappear.

other than that, you can not permanently get rid of them.

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

[Suicide Junkie]

Designs will permanently dissapear when:
a) They are obsolete
b) There are no surviving ships with that design
c) A small amount of time has passed (1-5 years)

[Puke]

they will? when did that start?

[Suicide Junkie]

Since SE3 or before.

When there is no longer any need to know the design, it is deleted.

Design plans are needed if:
- The design is not obsolete, and might be used in the future.
- There is at least one ship of that design floating around the universe.
- Another race has the design in their "enemy ship designs". In SE3, an enemy ship design was forgotten after 50 turns of not seeing it, either in combat or via LR sensors.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 06 September 2001).]

[Puke]

wow, thats great. i just checked a save game, and the only obsolete designs i have that are over 3 years old are those that saw combat. so if you have a new game with the same empire, all those old designs will go away?

and you could effectively 'flush' your design inventory by putting the race in a empty game and letting a few years pass without event. neato.

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

[Suicide Junkie]

If you start a new game and obsolete your designs on the first turn, they will likely be deleted before you know it.

In fact, from an experimental game, at the end of every year, all unnessesary designs are deleted at once.

To flush your empire's designs, play the first 10 turns of a game with the old/future designs obsoleted.