ship building problem

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In testing supernova I of course tried building ships asap.  This seems to be a bit tricksy in my hands.  My first ships didn't show up in the ship building list;  they did later so I suspected perhaps a turn had to go by before they showed up.  Today I went further and picked up the battle cruiser tech, then tried to build a new ship medium sized.   I could not get the game to take my new ship and I pondered that maybe I didn't have some prereq tech.   But if the hull type shows up in the building list, it should be buidable no?  Huge likelihood that I am just doing something wrong.

Doing some more testing I will try to be more specific.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

OK I built  new designs, fighter, frigate, and cruiser.   Used beam weapons and avenger missiles, and added on engine element.   Both the fighter m0 and frigate m0 turned up as expected in the list of available designs, and I could select them to build.  But the cruiser design did not.   I don't know why; but I suspect I hadn't researched enough techs.  I had the cruiser tech that allowed me to select the hull, but, apparently,   not use it.

I will supply a save file if that would be useful.  Just have to remember how to save stuff to the cloud.

(added)  apparently I needed "battle cruiser doctrine" before I could build cruiser hulls.   Well, the ship designer shouldn't allow one to design a ship that one can't build - or, better - the fact that one can't yet build it should be clearly stated and the needed tech (or whatever) should be stated.

Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

This is great feedback for the ship designer, I also appreciate the edits to keep it up to date. Yes a save file would be appreciated.

 

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