Can I change a Custom Designed Ship's Requirements?

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Howdy,

I made a ship after playing a couple of 'partial' games. A Freighter that I call the Kenworth. Certainly Kenworth will still be making freighters when we achieve galactic travel! Now after having played some games I realize I would like to use this custom design earlier than I am able to. Right now I have to wait too long, for Advanced Miniaturization or something. Can I change something in the ship's ..shipcfg file to make it availble earlier(lower techs)? If so would I also have to delete the components in the it's .xml file? Or is there something even simpler that I'm unaware of? I included a screenshot of it just for fun.



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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's using the miniturisation, so if you ever want to be able to use it again, don't change the shipconfig.

Start a battle of the Gods. Upgrade the ship, and strip of all weapons. Save as a blank hull. That should make it accesible.

Oh, and nice ship
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hey Marcathonas,

Thanks. Sounds simple and good enough so I'll give it shot. And I'm glad you like the ship! I like it quite a bit too, hence the reason I wanted to get it to where I could use it within a reasonable amount of time into a game.

Thanks again
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
or If you are playing the metaverse you might have to open a saved game instead,

Then do as Marcathonas suggeted but also take all engines, defences, sensors, and range extenders off. Leave the trade modual on and then it will appear as soon as you have the trade tech.
Cause if you want to use it for another purpose then take the trade modual off.

save this as your default name and new start a new game
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hi Bakka,

We'll do. I haven't gotten to play since asking this question but I'm about to fire up the game and give it a try now. I haven't played a Meteverse game yet so that shouldn't be a problem. I do only want to use this as a freighter so I will remove everything except the Trade module. I'm not certain how quickly I'll be finishing the current game I'm playing but I guess I won't see how this works out until I start a new game, but I wanted to say thanks for your input!

Cheers