My ship designs gone after update patch; how do I get them back?

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Brilliant idea Stardock, have the updater empty the ship designs folder. Reeeal smart.

Can anyone tell me how (if it's possible) I can get my designs back and into the game again?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Uh, you know that you contradict yourself? If the update has emptied your ship design folder, how do you think you'll get them back? You know, file deleted, file for ever away?


Besides, no update for the game has ever done something like this to me.

You're really sure it was the update? And which update exactly? (version number?)
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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OK I'll make this as simple as I can:

1) Before I updated the game, I had a bunch of ship designs that I made.
2) I downloaded and installed the update. It was the Bonus Pack that you can download from Stardock's site.
3) The next time I played a game I looked at the tech tree and it didn't say "this tech needed for such and such a ship" anymore
4) I quit the game and looked in the "ships" folder in the "GalCiv2" directory and it was empty
5) I reloaded a game I had saved before updating and there are all my ships. I can update them, build them, buy them, etc in that game. Now, how can I get to those designs from a post-update game?
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
6) When I load a game that I saved before the update and create a ship, I can't access it in a new game.

Thanks Stardock. Well at least the game doesn't crash every three minutes. Oh wait, it does.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

What's new in 1.0X(.1)
+ NOTE: Your ship designs from 1.0D1 and before will NOT show up in this version. We have updated this version so that the ships contain their own unique version ID so that when we do FUTURE updates, your ships will still work. But we didn't implement this until now (now that we have seen the sophisticated ship designs people are creating). So we apologize in advance for that, but it shouldn't be a problem going forward.
CLARIFICATION: Your ships in your SAVED games will work fine. It's just that ships designed in 1.0D1 won't automatically show up as new designs in 1.0X. If you have a design you really want to keep, just load up the saved game and resave the ship.



This is from the Dev Journal 1.0X change log dated 3/6/2006 - there's more info in the thread...

Go to Forums.galciv2.com and open up the journals section