Ship designer bug

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Hi,

Whenever I try to design a ship, when I click the save button the appearance of the ship is overwritten with either the first ship I designed, or the default fighter, no matter what hull size I'd picked - it just scales the ships up to match.

I heard it was just a corrupt file problem, and I should validate my game files through steam. I've done that several times, even completely reinstalled at one point. The bug still persists, though.

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Update. Just completely uninstalled Galciv 3, removed every file, including the ones in My Documents, went through the registry and deleted every GC3 file, and did a full, fresh install, which I then validated the files on.

 

It still overwrites any ship I design with the first one I design. Bugger.

 

Any help with this would be appreciated.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I had the same problem when I was naming my designs with dots in it. Like "I. Pebble" or something... It looks like there is a bug with special characters in names of the designs. So I would suggest to avoid using it if you are.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Hmm, interesting. The default names do come with "T.A.S."

 

I'll have to check that out, thanks.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Just a long shot. You aren't saving the ship as a template are you?

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Removing the periods solved the problem, thanks! That is an odd bug.

 

@Franco, yeah, definitely wasn't that. Though the first time I played I had, and was confused where it disappeared to. Thanks anyway!