Stellaris - [v3.3.0 Beta] & [b02d] Exploit: 50% ship cost exploit. building naked ships and refitting costs half as much as building a ship normally

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Jstanley3

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[v3.3.0 Beta] & [b02d] Exploit: 50% ship cost exploit. building naked ships and refitting costs half as much as building a ship normally

Game Version
Libra v3.3.0 Beta

What version do you use?
Steam

What expansions do you have installed?


Do you have mods enabled?
No

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
You can use an exploit in refit costs to build ships at 50% to 60% of the normal price, ending up with much more fleet power than you should have.

in my test:
1313 alloy to build ship normally.
295 alloy for a naked battleship
356.81 alloy to refit
651.81 final cost if you build naked and refit.

versus non-exploit, build it from scratch: 1313 alloys
exploiters get to build ships for 50% off (0.495811) percent off, or so.
These numbers will differ depending on modules and other ship cost modifiers.
I had 5% off for governor, all techs researched.

Steps to reproduce the issue.
start a game. open console.
use:
"alloys 10000"
"research_all_techs"
"instant_build"
make two ship designs, one with full modules and one with no modules.
Build a naked ship with no modules.
use fleet manager to refit the ship.
have the ship go to starbase and upgrade.
You will end up with a ship that cost much less than full price.

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Jstanley3

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BTW, the bug report form asked what DLC I had, I checked the option "all DLC", but after submitting the form, my post doesn't reflect my answer.
I ran my test with all DLC turned on/enabled.

I get the same problem without any mods running, even without UI mods that don't modify checksum.