Snowraven

Thanks! That was exactly it. Once I turned auto-favor off and removed it from the favorite list, it got fixed.

I selected a battleship hull from the hull templates and then outfitted it with three enhanced railguns, promethium drive, advanced shield generator, advanced point defense, 2x hull plating, foundry and a slipstream accelerator. It does have the battleship icon right beside it in the list. So, I iteratively removed one module after another until there was just one railgun on it. Still no luck. So, I went and started from scratch, same hull, just one railgun on it. Same result. So, I tho

I have got a quick question: How do you get your ships listed under Military ships in the shipyard's “Available Projects” section? It seems, regardless of what I am doing my own ship designs always get listed under Specialty ships, and I thought that this section is reserved for colony ships, constructors, miners, freighters etc., or in short: non-combat ships. What am I doing wrong?

I maxed out the number of sectors as well and set Civilization Proximity to Far. I have four civilizations next to me in the same sector. That setting does absolutely nothing.