Two dumb newbie questions

[Fyron]

Just to clear it up, when talking about the actual files, a ship set is a race, and a race is a ship set.

[oleg]

Originally posted by Slick:
DOH! Tesco beat me on the RD thing while I was typing.

Slick.

Yes, but your post is the most comprehensive on the subject !

[Ed Kolis]

One strange thing I discovered about refits, though - all the ships you refit at once have to be of the same class. So if you have 10 Narf-class Battlecruisers and 10 Zort-class Battlecruisers and you want to refit them to Xeon-class Battlecruisers, you can't just select all of them and refit, the refit button is grayed out if you try that, you have to first refit one class and then the other - you can do this on the same turn, but you have to do it as two separate operations. At least in 1.84 it's that way.

[oleg]

It always was like that. Makes things easier from programming perspective I think, no need to use a subroutine to check whether you selected 10 battlecruisers and 10 escorts for retrofit

[Fyron]

You used to be able to retrofit multiple designs of the same size at once in SE3. Let's hope Aaron isn't lazy with the SE5 retrofit sub-routines!

Actually, I think the real reason why you can only retrofit ships of one design at a time is the max retrofit cost limit in SE4. This did not exist in SE3, where any ship could be retrofitted to any other design (of the same ship size, of course). Doing so didn't save any time, because all components started out "damaged" and had to be repaired.