When I make custom ships the designs will only delete for the current runtime. If I exit the game and restart it they always come back, some of them come back with duplicates. I have about 50 custom ship designs and its becoming annoying to scroll through all of them to find what I want or delete them everytime I play the game.
I have a similar problem with custom civilizations. They delete, but will only stay gone until the game restarts. Fix?
I have noticed the same thing and have to go find the ship templates and delete them from my user data files.
Are you deleting the ships uring a game session or from the main menu?
Do you have steam cloud enabled?
Nothing seems to permanently delete in game. I have to delete the custom ship design file from My Games / GalCiv4 / Design folder, before it is permanently removed.
I am not playing via steam, but purchased via epic.
I actually tried all that stuff. I disabled steam cloud for GC4. It worked at first, but then a couple days later they came back anyway. I deleted the ship designs in the program folder, again I noticed the designs came back. I delete many of the designs everytime I play just to get them out of the way temporarily, they always come back.
I am now playing via steam and have noticed more issues with Ship Design Templates than previous via Epic.
Not quite sure what is going on yet.... but there is something amiss.
When I tell it to over-write a ship design, it acts like it does, in the game for a bit.
But sometime later I have 2 ships designs of the same name?
When I check the design folder, sure enough, the old "replaced" design was never deleted.
FYI - I have Steam Cloud saves for GC4 explicitly turned off.
I suspect that one drive may be restoring the files. Can you try disabling one drive for the My Games\GalCiv4 director?
That is entirely possible.
This is relatively new system and I am not accustomed to "My Games" folder being hosted on OneDrive.
I think you are onto something I did not previously consider.
I completely remapped my "Documents" folder to my local harddrive, which includes the "My Games" folder.
On new system, I suspect this all gets mapped to OneDrive by default.
Anways, I will keep an eye on it and see if the issue persist.
tyvm
I think there is a problem with the way the game communicates with Steam to remove a civ. Steam stores zip files of everything downloaded from its workshop in a local directory. Since I have GalCiv4 installed on drive D, the location is D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\1357210 on my computer. It contains a separate folder for each item, which contains a zip file with all the content for that item. I think that Steam will use this as a way to restore something it thinks is “missing”.
In the past I downloaded a civ named “Eye Crunchies” from the Steam Workshop. After it appeared in a game, I realized it didn’t have a “Civilization Name”, but only a “Civilization Short Name”, so I used GalCiv4’s “Choose Civilization to Lead” screen to delete it. I had read about the problems deleting civs, so I also went into the Factions directory and made sure there weren’t any files still there.
This weekend, a civ that I had made appeared as a random civ in a game. I decided I didn’t like it, so I went back to the “Choose Civilization to Lead” screen to delete it. While there, I noticed the “Eye Crunchies” civ was back.
I am aware of the continuing problems with “deleted” civs still hanging around, so I also deleted the “Eye Crunchies” civ and checked to see if it came back. I was doing other things with the game which included starting and stopping it several times. I didn’t notice how long it took, but the “Eye Crunchies” civ did come back.
I deleted it more than once, and it came back every time. I tried all the variations to get rid of it, but it always came back.
Finally, with GalCiv4 not running, I went into the Steam workshop and unsubscribed from it there. The “Eye Crunchies civ has been gone since then.
I'm not sure if I've had trouble getting rid of civs I've downloaded from Epic/Stardock.
I have had Steam Cloud disabled in global Steam settings for several years because I don't use it. It is also off for each individual game, including GalCiv4. I don't use any cloud-based substitute, like One Drive, instead of local disk storage.
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