How to update transports?

[Sinthoras1991]

Hi guys,
in the middle of my 1st game here. I am at war, with my fleets just crushing the enemy. They were able to get to his territory with the tier 2 warp drive.
But when i tell my assault armies to embark their ships they only have tier 1 warp drive and thus can't reach the enemy. I did not find an option to upgrade my transports in the ship editor.
Am I missing something or how do I get my assault armies to have the advanced warp drives as well?

 

[Krajzen]

Good question... Try checking Ship Designer, I don't remember but transport ship designs may be here. You then need to change warp drive to newer model and save upgraded version. Try if this works.

 

[dskod1]

@Sinthoras1991
@Krajzen is correct, all civilian and military ships are in your ship designer, including transports.

 

[Boops]

@dskod1 have you personally confirmed this? I'm here looking for an answer to this, as my army is completely cut off, unable to get anywhere because Transport ships don't appear in the premade designer list, nor' can I create a new design as a Transport. Army is completely stuck at Tech 1 FTL travel.

 

[whosthebestcop]

Doesn't look like transports are in the ship designer. Either need to be added or just an auto update.

 

[22Arkantos]

Can confirm, exact same situation as OP. At war with an empire a galactic arm over from me. My warfleets make it over just fine at the two chokepoints where my tier 2 warp drive can reach the other arm, but my transports can't cross because they're using tier 1, and there's no way to upgrade them. I've looked in every menu, it just isn't there.

Hopefully this gets fixed in the first patch, because right now waging war outside my arm of the galaxy as a warp civ is pretty much impossible. I've taken up a scorched earth policy to try to make up warscore, but I can't liberate any planets, which was a big motivation for my current war (to create a buffer state).

 

[dskod1]

It is possible. I can do it. Look at the slots on the right. They are always pre filled. It should be the slot on the top.

So look at the slot on the top of the middle-right slots

 

[Red Death]

Didn't they have the exact same problem in one of the Blorg streams?

 

[omnicide]

Are only warp transports bugged? So can you avoid this bug by using hyperlanes or wormhole?

 

[Sinthoras1991]

It is possible. I can do it. Look at the slots on the right. They are always pre filled. It should be the slot on the top.

So look at the slot on the top of the middle-right slots

No it is not. At least not when the transports don't even show up in the ship designer.
I've just checked it with armies up in space in their transports and with all armies down on planets (so the transports are more or less disbanded).
I also can't create a new transport design via the create new ship desing button at the top of the list. Transports don't appear on the list of possible ship-classes.

 

[dskod1]

@Sinthoras1991
Okay, I feel like I am going crazy, I am going to check it again. Maybe I am totally mistaking the ships around.

 

[dskod1]

Ahh, really sorry. I have no idea why but I was mixing up the constructor with the transporter. So it is official, I am going crazy.

In that case, if you haven't already, you should really bug report this. Seems completely not WAD to me.

 

[Mackrels]

Are only warp transports bugged? So can you avoid this bug by using hyperlanes or wormhole?

The engines still don't upgrade, so transports go slower than your other fleets once you get upgrades, but the range isn't an issue.

 

[omnicide]

Hmm so are AIs using warp broken too?

 

[Verenti]

The engines still don't upgrade, so transports go slower than your other fleets once you get upgrades, but the range isn't an issue.

Yes, but if you get a different FTL (say jump drives), it IS a problem because not only are your troops slower, they move asynchronously to the rest of your fleet. This game has some serious micro problems.

 

[GermanicusDD]

Had the same problem but I think I found a solution.

Embark the armies on the transport.
Select them in space and right click on your planet (i think you need a space port but I am not sure).
Right clicking, I got a option to upgrade ships to latest design (went from warp 1 to warp 3)

Hope this helps

 

[Xoatl]

Had the same problem but I think I found a solution.

Embark the armies on the transport.
Select them in space and right click on your planet (i think you need a space port but I am not sure).
Right clicking, I got a option to upgrade ships to latest design (went from warp 1 to warp 3)

Hope this helps

Okay this definitely works. First check the box "automated design" in the ship designer menu then the upgrade button appears for the transport fleet. In my opinion the transport ship should be in the design menu. I like adding red crystal halls to my civilian ships to give them a little more longevity to retreat in case enemies appear. Also, sublight engines and sensors would be nice to change.

 

[sterrius]

Also not only transport ships, but mining stations and frontier stations could benefit a lot if we're able to edit them at the ship designer.

A station with a extra shield and blue lasers would be able to defend herself a lot more.

And should not be hard to include them.

 

[Artess]

Are only warp transports bugged? So can you avoid this bug by using hyperlanes or wormhole?

It's not as much bug as an oversight, I think. Hyperlanes work the same, movement isn't restricted by your research; and for wormholes it's the same as warp in this regard, but since the range of wormholes is higher by default, you shouldn't have any troubles reaching another arm of the galaxy.

 

[Artess]

I found a solution!

Go to ship designer. Click "auto-generate designs". It will create a bunch of automatic designs. Transport ships still won't appear, HOWEVER, you can now go to transport fleet and click upgrade, and all your newly embarked armies will also have the best warp.