Is there a way to pay money to have all your ships upgraded with the latest weapons or do you have to do some redesign. More specifically, I can't figure out how to retrofit existing ships...

You have to redesign.

All non-jewelry is removed when you upgrade a ship design in the 1.1 beta, so it's a lot easier to go from mk 1 to mk 2 to mk 87.

Before the beta, I'd make a jewelry-only hull template and prefix the design name with ~ to make it show at the bottom of lists.
So I'd have the base ~Constructor that would be upgraded to Constructor Mk I, Constructor Mk II... Still do that, actually. Hm.

But once you have a new design, you can upgrade all of one class of a ship to that new design (as long as they are of the same hull size).

There is a checkbox under the image of the ship in the upgrade screen to upgrade all ships of that class.

You have to redesign.

All non-jewelry is removed when you upgrade a ship design in the 1.1 beta, so it's a lot easier to go from mk 1 to mk 2 to mk 87.

Before the beta, I'd make a jewelry-only hull template and prefix the design name with ~ to make it show at the bottom of lists.
So I'd have the base ~Constructor that would be upgraded to Constructor Mk I, Constructor Mk II... Still do that, actually. Hm.
Same practice here :) I make jewelry-only hull templates, call them
"[Your ship name here] Class" and save it. Afterwards I take the new, saved hull and outfit it according to what is needed "[Your ship name here] MKI", or just "I", "II", "III", or "A", "B", "C", etc works nicely. Just don't forget to save your ship files before installing any updates :o

All non-jewelry is removed when you upgrade a ship design in the 1.1 beta, so it's a lot easier to go from mk 1 to mk 2 to mk 87.
I don't have the 1.1 beta and when I upgrade a ship all non-jewelry is also removed. I don't think that is a new feature!

I don't have the 1.1 beta and when I upgrade a ship all non-jewelry is also removed. I don't think that is a new feature!

That's.... odd. I could've sworn.... :wow:

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go gibber incoherently in a corner.

weird- my modules, engines and weapons tend to stay (with 1.0x that is) and have to be removed manualy during upgrades. That "feature could well be a bug :|

weird- my modules, engines and weapons tend to stay (with 1.0x that is) and have to be removed manualy during upgrades. That "feature could well be a bug :|
Bug, feature, what is the difference, really.
I just find it very convenient that I don't have to remove everything manually... :lol: