Upgrading ships, etc?

Marty Ward · #1 February 27th, 2001, 02:28 AM

You can upgrade your ship just by clicking the upgrade button in the creation window. This puts the latest Version of the current components in the ship. You can then modify it any way you want. You just have to rename it.

Codo · #2 February 27th, 2001, 03:45 AM

You may run into a couple of snafus while trying to upgrade the design of a ship though... Shield 1's are lighter than any other shield generator, and Shield Regen V's are heavier than other Regen's. This means you have to shuffle around some parts to get things to fit...

On the 'cost more than 50%' bit I've noticed this happen most often when you try to upgrade a ship with Bridge/Crew/Life Support to a computer-controlled ship. One way I've found around this is to make a ship design that's partway in cost between the ship I have and the ship I want. Then I retrofit my ship to the 'intermediate' design and then retrofit again to the new design (Which is where I noticed that in the patch before the current one, that mysetriously after retrofitting twice like that, a bunch of the components were magically fixed already!)

Codo

capnq · #3 February 27th, 2001, 07:25 AM

Is there any way to retrofit Weapons Platforms and other Units? They don't show up on the Scrap window list. Satellites in orbit can be scrapped, but not retrofitted.

I know I can transfer the older models to cargo transports to make room to build newer models, but I hate to just jettison them.

raynor · #4 February 27th, 2001, 07:35 AM

Sorry. Units cannot be retrofitted. It is the price you pay for *not* paying maintenance. Plus, units can be constructed at any planet without first building some other facility such as a space yard.

DirectorTsaarx · #5 February 27th, 2001, 04:18 PM

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Originally posted by Codo:
You may run into a couple of snafus while trying to upgrade the design of a ship though... Shield 1's are lighter than any other shield generator, and Shield Regen V's are heavier than other Regen's. This means you have to shuffle around some parts to get things to fit...
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Codo

Also watch out for standard armor getting "upgraded" to Emissive Armor. And regular Shield V's (300 pts. each, IIRC) being upgraded to Phased Shield I's (75 pts. each, IIRC).

Spyder · #6 February 27th, 2001, 04:22 PM

I have also seen components randomly added when I did an upgrade....so, when you do an upgrade on an existing ship design, look it over carefully and make sure that you got what you expected.

Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

DirectorTsaarx · #7 February 27th, 2001, 09:04 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Spyder:
I have also seen components randomly added when I did an upgrade....so, when you do an upgrade on an existing ship design, look it over carefully and make sure that you got what you expected.

Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

They fixed a couple of those in the 1.19 patch (specifically, small armor was being upgraded to small combat sensors or vice versa). You might want to document any others you've found & send them to MM...