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[Dark.Revenant]

In the fleet screen, Venture's description is:

Tough, dependable and not overly expensive, Venture-class cruisers are usually purchased by private corporations for escort duty or refitted by small non-aligned worlds for system defense.

It should be:

Tough and dependable, the Venture is usually fitted with a good missile complement but lacks the sustained damage output needed to do well in prolonged engagements. A built-in mining drone bay provides additional defenses - a particularly good thing because the civilian-grade power generators make the shields easy to overwhelm.

[Alex]

Hmm. Dug around a bit, and it looks like you're right that it's not actually used anywhere! There *is* a code path where it could be used given specific tooltip config values (which are never set in the code), but, hmm. I'm not sure that it *should* be used, and I'm not sure why the text2 is filled in with descriptions for these couple of ships - the Venture, the Eagle, the Falcon. I think it's probably just extraneous data in the descriptions file.

[Dark.Revenant]

I seem to recall it, at one point, being a sort of "override".  Like if you have an in-a-nutshell description to use instead of the codex paragraphs, or if you really want multiple paragraphs (rather than just the first) to appear in the fleet tooltip.  I don't believe there is any way currently to replicate that behavior.

[Alex]

Ah, that rings a bell! I'm not seeing any leftover code that would make it work, though - at least, not enough of it - so either we're both remembering wrong or I took it out for some particular reason, hm.

[Alex]

Ah, I remember! text2 and text3 are now used for the Tesseract etc, and other ships that don't show their full info in the tooltip.