Aurora 4x
New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Vordarian on November 21, 2012, 04:46:16 AM
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I upgraded to drive tech 3 recently (1-2 yrs), but my shipping lines still build the same old, outdated ships designed over 15 years ago, even though I marked the old drives and designs obsolete. Only a newly founded line uses modern engines. Do they just need time or don't they ever upgrade?
Also, is there a way to rename shipping lines?
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Your civillians will over time update their ships and technology in my experience. Several times I have gotten an event message that they have scrapped a ship and replaced it with newer one. I'm not sure what the logic is that makes them decide between building a new ship that is in addition to their fleet or else replace an older with a newer ship. I would assume that over time they will improve their older fleets with newer ships. I've seen them develop new engines on their own so I assume they use them.
I don't think you marking a design as obsolete makes any difference to the civillian line. Obsolete only means it doesn't show up in lists for the player.
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Depends on what version he's running...if it's pre 6 then it would make a difference if he obsoleted designs, post then it doesn't since they don't care what you do, just what you have researched tech wise ;)
And yes...off the top of my head trying to remember a post where steve talked about it, it's something like 10 years (or is it 15) of age on a ship then it get's scrapped. If it wasn't for me just waking up I'd go hit up search and find the post for you :D
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I'm using 6. 10. They are scrapping allright, but the replacements they're building are the same obsolete types. So far each line has its own slightly different types (Sm/Lg Colony and Freighter, Liner, Fuel Harvester), but they're not updating those once they've developed them.