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Spit editing equipment and cosmetic placement into different modes modes.
Cosmetic mode allows you place cosmetic parts that don’t affect gameplay (same as before).
In equipment mode, you are just attaching equipment to the ship. The big change is that, by default, you don't have to attach to hard points. Just drag and drop (or double-click) the equipment to add it to your ship.
You can reenable hardpoints for equipment enabling the "Advanced Edit Mode" in the Ship Designer options.
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