Ship Design Types - Additions for future patch?

you can do this yourself by adding entrys too the DesignTypes.txt file in your data folder.

but yea, I'm hoping the ability to add or del them ingame will happen eventualy.

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an se5a is a ww1 fighter, it is also a car.

I created a small helper application to assist with the Design Type editing for now (until the feature is added to the full game). It is pretty basic right now, but I will be having and updated version put up later today. If you wanna try it you can go to http://charlesrking.net/downloads/download-se5dtedit/ and get it there (I have been waiting on a mod group membership for ages so I hosted it on my own site).

Let me know if it works ok for you, and if you use it look forward to an updated version very soon (the newer version will iron out a few kinks with path detection of SE:V)

-Currently subjecting multiple galaxies to the doom of conquer or blackholes

carlosjuero,
Great job on that helper! I found it and then found the .RAR opener and then I added a few design types I like. I wonder why Supply and Repair ships aren't part of the natural selection. I find bringing along a repair ship with a fleet comes in handy in repairing battle damage enough to allow damaged ships to retreat home. Supply ships do really nice at keeping a fleet supplied for battle without chewing up too much space on attack ships for supply storage. Seems that there are preset designs attached to these preset names.
Omnius

carlosjuero,
I did succeed in saving the changes to the designtype file but when in the game I could not find the 3 designtypes I added. I went back to check the file and indeed it shows the additions and the .bak file was created. I even moved the .bak to the root SE5 directory but I still can't see the changes show up. I went back into the RAR program and found the changes were saved. Any helpful ideas?
Omnius

Was it for a new game or a saved game? The limitations right now are that we can't add to a save game; It modifies the default file so you have to create a new game - not ideal I know.

The only thing to do (unless I can get some insight into how to add the values to the save game files) is start a new game and the design types will be there. I should have put a note into the project page for that I guess; I posted in the Mod forum and made sure to state that limitation but forgot elsewhere .

I will create an installer for it too so people don't have to get an unrar program

-Currently subjecting multiple galaxies to the doom of conquer or blackholes