New Ship Designs use only the "Point Defense"

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Since the last patch, every new preset ship design uses the point defenses. I am used to the old fashion style like vessels which use beam warfare also got beam defenses and so on.

Therefore one was able to mix fleets perfectly up in order to get all defenses and all offenses.

 

Now the only way is to use the designer. Well to be honest: I can't bother to use it since the game is a micro-management monster already. And to do this with every single design by researching better technologies is just insane.

 

So my intention is to address this (imo) issue and set the values back, which determines the presets accordingly, before the latest patch came out.

Or at least an option to tell the engine in how to create defenses.

 

Sincerely

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I've Noticed this issue as well... And I must admit it is quite annoying to go to the ship designer and redo every ship with the desired defenses to prevent your ships from being destroyed by practically anything else but missiles... Im not sure if this was intentional or a bug however

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

This was fixed in 1.2 Opt In.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I actually prefer to use the designer to make all of my ships. Presets are terrible and contains too many superfluous components. For example, why build a constructer with a bunch of life support and engine components when you are only sending it three spaces away to become an economic star base? It is better to redesign a constructor, remove all of those unnecessary components, and add another constructor module with the freed up capacity.

 

As for your warfare, just create one or two ship designs to counter your enemies, and you are good to go. You do not have to redesign everything.