I am new to the beta but I think I am correct when I observe that ship designs and templates only get associated to your current game. That means for a person like me who does not want the very heavy micro-management of creating ship templates and designs each game, I have to do it every time. I want to be able to create my designs and templates one time and then be able to re-use them each game. I am very surprised and disappointed that such a huge micro-management burden is forced upon us.
One other thing that I see is that even though I delete the game where these designs and templates were created, the files for them are not deleted (<user docs>\My Games\GalCiv3\Designs). Why is this?