Build version: 1.0.7.3 (Beta)
Severity: Medium
Annoyance factor: High
Saved game:
When there’s more than one design for a hull / role, and fleets have one of those multi-designs ships, the retrofit button isn’t disabled even if all the fleets ships are uptodate according to the fleet template.
Here’s an example from my current game. I have 2 active designs for frigates and 2 for destroyers:
* Capture frigate v10 (for capture fleets)
* Frigate (attack) v10 (all-purpose frigates)
* Destroyer X (all-purpose destroyers)
* Destroyer BR (bombardment destroyers)
My "Def Rinatasea" fleet use the “Defense Fleet” template, which uses the “Frigate (attack) v10” frigates and the “Destroyer X” destroyers designs:
- Fleet template.png (78.21 KiB) Viewed 291 times
All the fleet’s ships are uptodate, in accordance with the fleet’s template. But when the fleet is selected, the retrofit button is active, instead of being disabled as it should.
- Def Rinatasea Selection Panel.png (156.06 KiB) Viewed 291 times
Clearly, that behavior is related to the fact that there’s more than one active buildable design for destroyers and frigates. Here’s what’s shown when one of the fleet’s destroyers is selected and I click on the active retrofit button:
- Destroyer selection panel.png (147 KiB) Viewed 291 times
The fleet’s template specify to use “Destroyer X”. And the fleet’s destroyers using that design (which is ALL the fleet’s destroyers) are uptodate. Yet, the retrofit button isn’t disabled.
To resume: when all the ships in a fleet use the latest designs as specified in the template use by the fleet, the retrofit button should be deactivated. As it is now, when using multiple designs for a hull/role, there’s no trustable indication in the selection panel of whether a fleet needs retrofits or not. Which, when you have many fleets, can become annoying and confusing very quickly. Especially when you have a lot of research going on, and need to redesign and retrofit relatively often.