How to upgrade ships

GodKing · February 28, 2003, 17:29

I didn't actually look into this that much while I was playing, so it might be a silly question, but how do you go about updating ships? Can you? Nothing was apparent to me. I would find it a pain to just scrap all my old designes or until I needed to provide targets for say the guardians while my modern ships did the work.

Todd Hawks · February 28, 2003, 18:19

You can't upgrade ships.

vmxa1 · February 28, 2003, 18:28

You can only design new ones and make old ones obsolete.

canamrock · February 28, 2003, 19:34

You can always send the old ships to their dooms, negating the need to upgrade.

lol

Defkon · March 2, 2003, 01:03

i heard a rumor that refiting might be added in a future patch / expansion pack

smellymummy · March 2, 2003, 01:13

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Originally posted by Defkon
i heard a rumor that refiting might be added in a future patch / expansion pack

i hope not!

i manage ship building now in a sort of continuous stream. I keep building them from military bases, and then I use them. this assures that I see some action

When new techs come out, I obsolete old designs, and replace it with a better one, and only if it's a considerable change: for example, if I have no shield tech and then I discover shield class III. thats a case where its worth it.

but then refitting everytime I get a new modification tech for a weapon, or other minor things..... and just to start thinking about refitting all my ships, ugh

what a clicking hassle!

and given the current interface/menus/options, I doubt a free patch would be able to integrate an AI driven auto refitting thing.

vmxa1 · March 2, 2003, 03:08

You are correct we will not be seeing upgrades for ships in a patch.