Ship Design Loss

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So I spent a good 25 minutes making a second ship design, but as I was naming it, I noticed it had a beam weapon I had meant to remove, so I hit cancel.  Instead of bringing me back to the ship, it brought me back to the main ship designer screen.  I checked to see if the ship had saved, and it had, but it used the model of the first ship I had made.  I was pretty upset, but I decided to just delete the design and make it again, as close as I could.  I finished and saved it, and then checked to see if it had worked.  It didn't, it was still a copy of my first ship, with the parts from my second ship.  I reloaded the game, and that seemed to fix the problem (I made another ship, just a hull, and it seemed to work).  I wasted a lot of time though, making both versions of this ship, for nothing.  I can get over it, but I want to know that it won't happen again.  Does anyone know what caused this?

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

If you are missing a design save your game (don't reload since designs cannot at this time be hot loaded into a game) then check in My Documents/My Games/GalCiv3/Designs to see if you see your design there. 

 

Also, are you clicking use as template? This creates a new hull design  but does not create a ship. 

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I'm clicking on new design.  I spend a while making the ship, and then when I hit save, it just looks like the first ship I designed.  If I do it fast, and just make a ship with a hull it works, but otherwise it just copies thew first ship.

I tried a few times, all of them failed.  So I deleted all my user made ships and tried again, and it still bases it off the first design I made, even with it having been deleted.  What is going on!?

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I'm going to ask again. Are you checking use as template? This strips all components off your ship. Otherwise, it might be worth recording a video or taking pictures. 

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

No I don't click the template button, and even if I did, the weapon/engine parts I chose are all still there when I'm done, but the ship looks like my original ship, sorry if i was being unclear.  I do Design > New Design > Make my ship > Save > Save.  If you still don't know, then I'll try some pictures.

 

      -Thank you for your help so far though, by the way :)

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Can you send me your save and a couple pictures.

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

The problem is that the "cancel" button scraps your ship with no confirmation message. It is not an "undo" button as one might guess. I bugged them about this in beta, but they never changed it. I have lost a number of ships to this as well. If you want to remove a single part, double click it in the part list at the bottom of the screen.