Designable Civilian Ships (No Auto-Upgrade)
An alternate version of Designable Civilian Ships for those who don’t want their ships instantly auto-upgraded to a computer-generated design every time they research a ship technology. Unfortunately the insta-upgrade mechanism seems to be tied to the auto-generated designs and I can’t find any other solution but to disable it. That’s a real pity since the insta-upgrades save a lot of micromanagement upgrading your science ships and constructors, but if you can live with that in order to preserve your civilian (& transport) designs from the game’s interference then this is the mod for you.
This mod also makes the component costs affect the ship build cost (except for colony ships and troop transports), with ships starting off at their usual cost at game start and becoming more expensive with higher tech components (upkeep is still fixed at the usual values).
Not achievements compatible
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.