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I recently tried modifying BlackSwan's interstellar alliance shipset, but found a problem I don't know how to fix. Whenever I try to use the shipset(vree), the game acts as though I selected the Interstellar Alliance shipset instead.

So what happens is:
1:create race
2: select Vree shipset
3: save race
4a: reopen race to edit or
4b: start game
5: discover tha the game is using the IA shipset instead of the Vree shipset.

My theory concerning this is that somewhere inside the shipset data is a text string it uses to identify itself. This is currently the same as in the IA shipset. Thus the game can't tell them apart.

I found a bug that lets you redsign a ship after it's built. apparently it's a "rebug" that was fixed in a previous version. It's the one where switching views undisables the edit button.

Where can I find the data on weapons or for that matter on components in general? I want to know damages, ranges, costs etc. On seaker weapons, I want to know how fast the seeker moves and how much damage it takes before being destroyed.

I also would like to know how each weapon improves with tech levels. Some weapons seem to improve only slightly with tech levels while others improve drastically. I want to be able to print out the data or even import it into an Excel file so I can compute the best tech paths to take to reach my goals.

I am aware that I can just start a game with all of the technologies and then just look at each weapon individually. That is a long and laborous task. It also does not tell me how well a weapon changes with tech advancement nor does it tell me what I want to know about seeking weapons.

I use a lot of units in my games. In order to fill up my carriers and keep my satelite layers busy, I have a good number of planets building fighters and satelites (mines too but that is a different subject). What I am finding is that I am forced to only build on planets with large storage capacities because on small domed plannets, they run out of space very quickly.

Is there a way to have a planet build satelites and fighters and then immediately lauch them?

Better yet, is there a way to have a planet build fighters and then immediately launch them and have them move to another location? I know, I am spoiled from playing Total Anihilation and Supreme Commander where you can build and then automatically give the new units various orders.

I don't know why they didn't just reuse the research interface from SE IV. I absolutely hate this allocation by percentage. I spend countless minutes each turn just trying to allocate my research in a way that I get the next tech levels instead of having points wasted in half the items researched as they only get a partial level. I click on a tech, then I use the arrows to go up or down 1 pt at a time until I get the right percentage to get the next tech level. Sorry, but this is a big leap backwards compared to the old interface.

Is there a way to use some of the old SE IV features such as automatically allocating enough points to get the next level?

Hello, I'm not much of a modder, so I was wanting to know how I would go about doing one of two things.

1. Is there any easy way to take a ship model, and increase or decrease it in all dimensions, such that you could then use it for a larger or smaller ship class? I understand that the game doesn't care what the ship's size is, in dimensions, relative to its kT. But as a person, I would like my model for my higher kT ships to be bigger than the lower ones.

2. I am also wanting to know if anyone has made a mod, or knows a way to mod the game, such that you could pick from several models for a given ship class. For example, you could have 1,2,3...ect different ship models for a destroyer, or battleship.