Why Planet refuses to build?

mac5732 · #1 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 · #2 January 7th, 2002, 09:43 PM

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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 · #3 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.

capnq · #4 January 8th, 2002, 12:14 AM

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there is also a line in the facility or settings file that states '# of pop required per facility.'

That feature is known to not be implemented yet.

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if you are over the wp won't be built until your current number is reduced, I believe wp's are counted as units.

That limit is on units in space, which WPs never are. It's possible to build mines and satellites and not be able to launch them until you destroy some of the older ones.

mac5732 · #5 January 8th, 2002, 08:33 AM

cap, are you sure, i know thats what it says in the manual, but i've had it where once limit for units was reached it wouldn't let me build any wp's. as soon as I destroyed some mines or sats, I was able to build, the wp's just stayed in the build que but they wouldn't build,

at least that was the way it was in earlier Versions 1.35 etc. really haven't paid it much attenion with 1.49, I just figured it was the same as before. have to ck it out tks

just some ideas mac

[ 08 January 2002: Message edited by: mac5732 ]

DavidG · #6 January 9th, 2002, 01:27 AM

Well there are definately no limits on units reached as it is very early in the gaame. The planet is blockaded though. Does this reduce the available resources below what is shown in the eempire status window? Or is it simply not possible to build on a blockaded planet which is what I suspect.

DavidG · #7 January 9th, 2002, 01:30 AM

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Originally posted by Krakenup:
If he is not a Natural Merchant, did he lose his Space Port?

Mmmm not sure about this. But is a Space port required? I know you can build WP's in a new system that does not yet have a space port.