There's another topic on this somewhere recently....... but to restate my point of view on it.

Personally, I hated the old way! It was a real chore to find the components to delete on the original version if you built anything bigger and more complex - not to mention if you had stupidly put something in the interior of your ship!. Clicking on the things in the bar to delete them was unpredictable at best and would often replace it as soon as you clicked on the next one.

Now it scraps all your non jewellery based things and let's you put on all your current techs. Sometimes it takes a couple of seconds longer to do but often it takes several minutes less. I vastly prefer the newer way.

Other than patching down.... no, can't say that there is a way. Wait and see what happens in the next patch - the ship builder is getting a major overhaul, so who can tell what will be true for that!

Or maybe just keep the old design and add a button to remove all components except for the jewelry.

I like the idea of options as a lot of times I will only want to upgrade one portion of a design with a new weapon but keep everything else. Having to replace all the gear takes up time and often results in me writing down the old design so I can reference it on paper.

I can see where a complete overhaul would be nice but I would like the option of what gets deleted.

Or maybe just keep the old design and add a button to remove all components except for the jewelry.

That's was one of my suggestions in this thread.
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