Designs Window

Description

| This window allows you to view all of the vehicle designs of your empire and those that you have seen of other empires. It also allows you to manage your designs and test them in the Combat Simulator. |

Controls

| Designs List | This is a list of all of the designs in your empire. The designs are broken into groups depending on the type of design they are. Then, for each design, the design's name size and whether its a prototype is listed. If you are viewing enemy designs, then the list is displayed slightly different. The designs are grouped by what empire they belong to. You will not be able to see what type they are, or whether it is a prototype design.

When an item in the list is selected, the detail about the design is shown in the Design Detail section.

| Design Detail | The design detail displays the specific information about the design selected in the Designs List.

| Size | The name of the size of this vehicle, followed by its actual tonnage amount in parenthesis.
| Design Type | The design type selected for this design. This is a general descriptive grouping for the design.
| Date Created | The date that this design was first created. If this design has been made "Obsolete", then the word obsolete will be displayed after the date.
| Cost | The cost in resources to construct this design. This cost is also used to compute the maintenance cost for ships of this design.
| Movement | The maximum movement a vehicle of this design will have.
| Shields | The total number of shields this vehicle will have when not damaged.
| Cargo Space | The total amount of cargo space this vehicle will have to store and transport cargo.
| Supply Capacity | The total amount of supplies this vehicle will be able to carry.
|  | When Stats\Strategy is not selected:
| Components on Design | This is a list of the components on this design. If there are more components than can be listed, arrow buttons will be displayed to allow you to scroll the list. You can right-click on any of the components to display the Component Report window.
|  | When Stats\Strategy is selected:
| Number Constructed | This is the total number of this design that have actually been constructed by your empire throughout the game.
| Number in Service | This is the total number of this design that have been constructed and still exist as ships.
| Number Lost | This is the total number of this design that were constructed and then subsequently destroyed.
| Enemy Tonnage Destroyed | This is the total tonnage in enemy ships that has been destroyed by ships of this design.
| Default Strategy | This selection allows you to pick the strategy that ships of this design will use in combat. If the ship is part of a fleet, its combat strategy will take priority. For more information about ship strategies, see the Strategies Window.

Buttons

| Ship Designs | This button will change the Designs List to display all of your ship designs.
| Unit Designs | This button will change the Designs List to display all of your unit designs.
| Enemy Ship Dsgn | This button will change the Designs List to display all of the ship designs for other races you have seen in the game. You "see" another race's design by either getting into combat with a ship of that type, by scanning the ship will Long Range Scanners, or by using some kind of intelligence operation.
| Enemy Unit Dsgn | This button will change the Designs List to display all of the unit designs for other races you have seen in the game.
| Create | This selection is used to create a new design for your empire. When you press this button, you will be asked what type of vehicle you wish to create. After selecting that, the Create Design Window will then be displayed.
| Copy | This selection will copy the currently selected design in the Designs List and open the Create Design Window so that you can edit it. It will be identical to the design that you selected, except that the name will not be filled in. You will have to give the design a new name before you can create it. No two designs in the game can have the same name.
| Edit | This selection allows you to edit the currently selected design in the Designs List. You may only edit Prototype designs. Prototype designs have not actually been ever built. So you can change their design any way you want. Once you construct a ship of a certain design, that design is no longer considered a prototype. At that point, you can no longer edit the design.
| Upgrade | This selection will take the currently selected design in the Designs List and upgrade all of its components to the latest of that type. When you select this, the Create Design Window will be displayed so that you can view the design and actually create it with a new name. If you don't want the design, just press cancel on the Create Design Window.
| Make Obsolete | This selection will mark the currently selected design as obsolete. As designs get older, they are no longer useful because of outdated technology. When a design is no longer useful to you, you should mark it as obsolete. In different windows through the game, you can then hide obsolete designs from being displayed. Obsolete designs will be automatically deleted by the game after a certain amount of time has passed. You cannot delete designs directly, just mark them as obsolete.
| Hide Obsolete | This option will hide all designs marked as obsolete from the Designs List.
| Stats\Strategy | This option will change the Designs Detail report to show slightly different information. The components list will be hidden, and in its place, statistics about this design will be displayed. These statistics are listed above. In addition, a box will display the current default strategy for this design. All ships of this design will use the strategy when engaged in combat (unless they're part of a fleet, and then the fleet's strategy comes first). For more information about ship strategies, see the Strategies Window.
| Simulator | This selection will display the Combat Simulator Window. The combat simulator will allow you to put your designs through simulated combat scenarios.
| Close | This selection will close this window and return you to the Main Window.

Special Notes

| None |

Related Areas

| Main Window , Create Design Window, Combat Simulator Window |