1890 Shared Designs

[chaosguy]

What's the likelihood of actually seeing the Shared designs when selecting 'Always' ? I've yet to actually see the AI select these, though not sure if the 1890 start is an issue (I keep them basic for that reason- but still better designs than the typical AI shotgun boat).

[vanDyck]

I think there was some way to mark them as 1887-1890 so the AI uses them during campaign generation, but can't remember how...

[chaosguy]

Hmmm, think I found it: https://forum.game-labs.net/topic/41164-shared-designs-from-campaign-start/

Edit: Wow. it is annoying to have to copy/rename every design.

[chaosguy]

Well, that didn't work either.... guess there's not much point in designing 1890 ships for a long campaign. But if AI can't be semi-competitive in design to start with, it hasn't got much chance.

[Liondrome]

Which towers are you using on your shared designs? The shared designer allows you to use some towers you won't have access to at the start of the campaign.

[chaosguy]

Nothing higher than a 2, and mostly 1's

[mlangsdorf]

I've seen the AI use my 1890 shared designs in a campaign starting in 1890. The AI even sold one to a minor nation, so I got to command a Spanish Rei Alfredo BB in 1924 or so.

By 1895, tech progression had diverged so much that the AI wasn't using any of my shared designs, and if it was using them for inspiration, I couldn't tell. The rest of the campaign was the usual mismatch design of 3.4", 3.6", and 3.7" guns all on the same ship and 32 knot BC in 1911 that had no armor.

[chaosguy]

I think I figured it out, for ships to spawn in 1890 it seems you can't have crews set at more than Cadet level, and I've been setting to 0 just to be safe, but they have spawned since I tried that. Not sure if this was something obvious or obtuse, but a tooltip would probably help a lot.