[1.0.3] Ship upgrading

[John the Gamer]

I have three cruiser designs I currently use in my fleets. An escort carrier, a medium range artillery cruiser and a short range brawler.

But when I order my fleet to upgrade to the latest designs, the game decides that I really only need one type of cruiser, and upgrades all my cruisers to the same design.

And it doesn't even pick the best one, it picks the second best. Why? Is the game programmed to always pick the latest design and ignore things like the name of the design or the firepower?

Now I have to either design a single cruiser for all purposes (removing the rock-paper-scissors element from my fleet) or I have to upgrade the ships and designs one-by-one. Or rebuild my entire fleet from scratch every time a new tech unlocks.

Is there a better solution for this conundrum?

 

[essi2]

As I understand it, the game always uses the latest design.

The solution I've used is to use different classes for different tasks, always redeveloping what class does what when unlocking a new class.

Destroyers for long range - Corvettes for screens/brawlers -> Cruisers for long range - Destroyers for med range/brawlers - Corvettes for screens etc.

Eventually ending ut with something like: Battleships Long range/Carriers - Cruisers Long/Med Range - Destroyer screens

 

[Boldwyn]

They way it works for me:

You have designs A and B, upgrade both keeping the names (overwriting designs). Upgrade the fleet, As upgrade to new A, Bs upgrade to new B.

Upgrade to latest design happens only for cases where you no longer have a design for a ship (or never had, e.g. integrated vassal's fleet).

 

[essi2]

They way it works for me:

You have designs A and B, upgrade both keeping the names (overwriting designs). Upgrade the fleet, As upgrade to new A, Bs upgrade to new B.

Upgrade to latest design happens only for cases where you no longer have a design for a ship (or never had, e.g. integrated vassal's fleet).

This should also work, but I haven't tested it since Day1. So I assumed it had changed since then, judging by OPs post.

 

[John the Gamer]

Yes, I have three designs (as mentioned) and after updating the design (keeping the names), all ships will upgrade to a single design.

More specifically my fleet has:

1 'Drone' cruiser (carrier module)
2 'Mandible' cruisers (medium range artillery)
2 'Razor' cruisers (short range brawler)
and an assortment of destroyers and corvettes.

After upgrading the fleet, I end up with 5 mandible class cruisers in my fleet.