Grintch11

A couple of basic ship building issues. 1 - Is there any easy way to change the ship class? I often have ships that I would like to scale up or down with minor changes and don't want to have to start from scratch to rebuild them everytime. Or I find a good ship in the Workshop, but it is the wrong class. 2 - So many Sci-fi series feature small fighters and big carriers/battleships with very little in between. I would like to use

So I have been trying to do some custom factions, in the base game (version 3.02 presumably). And I have noted a couple of problems. Any suggestions for fixes or work arounds? 1 - when I edit a faction and set a Tech tree, it seems to set/save that tech tree to ALL the factions or at least all the custom factions (using the Faction Designer front end) . This is a major problem say for synthetic factions that no longer have the right tech to replicate. 2 - I h

[quote who="Nilfiry" reply="4" id="3713095"] You can disable auto-upgrades if you do not like it. Just uncheck the radio button for it under manage. I also recommend that you disable it and manually decide when to upgrade since you will get more benefits from building new improvements in an empty slot rather than upgrading a pre-existing one, which takes to long. It is convenient to have later into the game, though, so it is not useless. [/quote] It really

How do we associate? Do we still need to spend hours digging through/figuring out the xml files?

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="2" id="3690259"] Are we sure those planets are not minors since things with minors have changed. If we are talking about the base game that is something civilization did where you only had contact for 20 turns. [/quote] So how exactly do you talk to Minors now?

I do not see a "ShipsClass.xml". I see several variations on ShipClassDefs, ShipClassText, & ShipClassAugDefs but no plain ShipClass. And none of those files have a reference to the blah blah ship I saved as a template in step 2. So I can't: 3. Find the design name Blah_Blah_of_Blah. 4. Add this to any ShipClass file under the size of the hull you want to move it too.

Need the "for Dummies" version. I don't see a ShipClass.xml (or any xml's) in the GalCiv3 directory. Also a bit unclear on why we need to save the ship THREE times, and modify the ShipClass file twice. P.S. Thanks for the help, I've got a dozen or two ships that I would like to be a different size

[quote who="Horemvore" reply="1" id="3649139"] You only get 25% Benefit if they gave you the treaty. Not if you gave it to them. Its kind of a weird setup. [/quote] That's not what the in game popup says. It says both parties get a 25% benefit. But maybe is more in line with what the wiki says, but IIRC IT says there is only a 5% benefit.

A related problem is not only are bigger ships better in every way, but they usually don't cost much more than ships half their size. While some economy of scale is realistic, we have far too much.

So "yeah, it doesn't work" or "yeah, it does work"? I tried it with a couple ships, but couldn't get it to work. But don't really have any experience with hard core use of the ship designer.

So this method doesn't work? https://forums.galciv3.com/466876/page/1/

I would also help is there was some differentation in the model sizes. 1 armor, chaff, point defense, main gun, missile launcher, etc. should't all be almost the same size. Battleship main guns are 14-18" verses 4.5-6" for destroyers (using the ww2 example), NOT the same size.

I agree with the OP. A fleet that is only made up of one type/size vessel is boring and unrealistic. Torpedo boats are faster than destroyers, which are faster than cruisers, which are faster than battle ships. At least with the auto designed ships, the opposite is true in GalCiv3. Which means building anything smaller than your largest ships is dumb and counter productive. Either a battelship engine in a torpedo boat should make