Design error ??

[TinyACK]

Recent bug that just cropped up for me the first time today. Was playing Austria-Hungary on a save I started earlier today. Suddenly couldn't build anymore of my battleships. When I went to the design menu it listed ?? as a building error.

Tried starting a new game as China and started building TB, but same thing came up. Unsure if this has been a bug for awhile now and I'm only just now experiencing it or the recent update broke something, but I can't play the game like this.

[jhuff]

I just ran into that tonight too. Just playing the training mission , convoy attack, I try to build a simple fast Battle cruiser, keeps coming up invalid design, and if the launch goes green by change, battle won't load. Not sure whats going on.

[wizwom]

For me, it is my dreadnoughts I cannot refit or design new without getting the error.

[Lady_Caster]

I am also having this crop up a lot, from battleships to destroyers.

[Hyades52]

First Speed mission in the Acadamy i have the same thing

[Earl of Dudley]

I got same issue i continue a saved campaign i did refit then tried another couldnt do it, so i do a new campaign an now design ships an now i get design error wtf, its unplayable i love the game an the devs are brilliant but this is stupid. at least the AI ships are alot better design and a challenge

[andrelemgard]

Same issue must be fixed asap, or change the name of the game to ultimate admiral ligth cruiser

[mProkz]

Same issue - I think it has to do with the update today. I did a full re-install and deleted all save game data and it seemed to fix a lot. Started a new campaign as China and Torpedo boats now fail, no matter what. So I'm stumped...

[Trayen]

I ran into the same issue. So I did some checking... Through the use of the shared designer off the main menu, I found that all my technology was not matching up. While I was light years ahead in hull design. I could use the 1909 USA dreadnaught hull, but my engines were out dated for that hull.

In the campaign, since my engines (second engine type... not sure what the name is) were the best I could use, it allowed me to choose them, but in the designer, the engines were showing as obsolete. I have a feeling this is happening with the other tech, where the tech trees are not advancing at the same rate.

[Boomer]

This bug has completely screwed up my new china campaign because i cant refit the piles of scrap that the autodesigner gave me

[Boomer]

The fix that they have implemented for the AI auto designer would be my guess for the issue
"Fixed an old problem of auto-design which could result in accepting and validating inferior ships, when there were more than 5x failed attempts."
i reckon that whatever they used to fix that had flags for extra minimums for weapons and funnels that someone forgot to separate from the player auto designer.

[Kel Kerman]

I'm getting it aswell. It's happened for Dreadnoughts and it just happened for my 1200t DD, new design

[Boomer]

its affecting everything i think

[Boomer]

you just need to add as many weapons and superstructure parts as it wants the trick is figuring out what it wants

[Drakken]

It's not a bug, and you can easily fix that.
When you desing a ship your engineers can make mistakes and your ship is not operational, so you can't even build them.
Just use "view" on the broken ship, then "copy" fix the issue, leave the design screen and deleted the bad ship design, keep the one you have modified.

[Boomer]

Originally posted by Drakken:

It's not a bug, and you can easily fix that.
When you desing a ship your engineers can make mistakes and your ship is not operational, so you can't even build them.
Just use "view" on the broken ship, then "copy" fix the issue, leave the design screen and deleted the bad ship design, keep the one you have modified.

Yes it is if you don't get told whats wrong other than (??) and it turns out the designer wants you to add a 5th turret or you cant build a new ship.
if its not a bug then its a failure as a UI