Why Planet refuses to build?

capnq · #1 January 6th, 2002, 07:09 PM

Is his homeworld blockaded? That drastically reduces the available resources.

Another possibility is that his ship maintenance is using all the resources before the WP can be be built, but in that case, he should be getting a log entry about it.

Phoenix-D · #2 January 6th, 2002, 08:25 PM

If it's not rioting, and there are enough resourses available, I can think of only two things:

1- the weapon platform is expensive enough that is takes a while to finish at the planet's current wounded state
2- he doesn't have any population left

Yes, you CAN have #2 without loosing the colony completely. Ussually it takes an event or intel project to do it.

Phoenix-D

Suicide Junkie · #3 January 6th, 2002, 10:01 PM

It is also possible to lose your population before you lose your Last facility from orbital bombardment, though rare, IIRC.
In that case the "time to completion" should be "never"

Skulky · #4 January 6th, 2002, 10:18 PM

there is also a line in the facility or settings file that states '# of pop required per facility.' I'm not sure what this does, but maybe he has too few people to run the facility.

mac5732 · #5 January 7th, 2002, 08:24 PM

what is your ship and unit number set at in the beginning of the game? if you are over the wp won't be built until your current number is reduced, I believe wp's are counted as units.

just some ideas mac

Krakenup · #6 January 7th, 2002, 09:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by DavidG:
Does anyone know the reasons a planet will not build. I'm playing with a guy who swears the game is 'screwing him'. The reasons I know are lack of resources, lack of population, planet riots, lack of cargo space. Are there any others? The planet in question is his home planet that was bombed and had all mineral facilities destroyed and he is trying to build a weapons platform. But he has resources from other planets. Apparently the item gets added to the build queue but next turn it is not there.

If he is not a Natural Merchant, did he lose his Space Port?

Puke · #7 January 7th, 2002, 09:57 PM

in older Versions of se4, it was possible to use modded data files to enter illegal designs into your queue. depending on the type of design, and what was wrong with it, sometimes they would not be recognized by the game host and deleted from the queue when the turn is processed.