Shipyard help

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Today was my first sit down with GC II since getting it. I just want to say that for the short time I played it, it was awesome! Except, I couldn't seem to be able to build a shipyard. I was playing the first mission in the campaign. The building wasn't available for construction on the list, so I couldn't produce any ships.
I thought I just had to research the right tech to unlock it, but I couldn't find any references to the shipyard in the tech tree and none of the techs I was unlocking was helping. How do I enable the shipyard? I'm really hoping this isn't a bug.
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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I just realized what the problem was, my military spending was 0% and the Starport was allowing ship construction. It just wasn't going anywhere cause I didn't put anything into the military budget. Ok, that was dumb. It was pretty early in the morning when I was playing so maybe I wasn't all there....
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If it says build time never, it means one of two things:

Either your industrial capacity on the planet was at 0 (build a factory , or check your military production slider)

-or-

You're paying off debt below -500 BC, in which case, that just takes time, and more taxes/less production.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've got a question on building ships at a starport, so I figured I'd hijack this thread to ask it.

If I go to my starport from the planet screen, I can see all of the ships I can build and can select one and pick 'buy' at that point. I cannot, however tell it to start BUILDING one! I have tried double clicking the ship I want it to start building, I have selected the ship I want it to build and picked both 'back to planet' and 'done' with no results. The *only* way I've been able to get a starport to start building a ship type is to use the quick starport interface from the main galaxy interface. This is fine and easy to use, but sometimes when I've been looking at a planet and picking social projects I might want to just click the starport button from there and have it start building a ship for me, too. Am I missing something, or is there a missing button from within the full starport screen?
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It will start building whatever you had selected when you select done.

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've had that same bug, where the shipyard won't change ships. The workaround I've been doing is to select a ship, then click "purchass" and then "cancel". That works.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
nevermind....when I came into the link I only saw the first post and now I see you have this well in hand.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Agreed. The button in the Starport for "Back To Planet" cancels your new build selection. I want it keep my new build selection and go back to the colony view. If I wanted to cancel out of there, I would hit Escape, or press a missing cancel button.

Frustrating. Next step for Star Dock: hire someone with training in designing user-friendly UI.