If I Purchase a Ship, Why Do I Have to Wait Until Next Turn For It?

Because there is delivery time to consider.

shipping and handling.

Don't forget opening that big ol' crate.
And then, digging the ship out of all that popcorn...

Yeah, its like you just contracted out from another company, and they have a deadline to meet, of 1 week, which is not much time considering it takes you say 11 weeks to make a battleship.

Actually, you are waiting zero turns - you get it at the end of this one.

Or, the devs can totally confuse us who have gotten used to it by adding 1 to the countdown variable in the comments in DA.....   

don't forget getting the crew to the ship

i mean really who wants to leave home for a 5 year cruise

And things dont just materialize out of thin air just cause you paid for it doesnt mean it will appear in front of your face.

Also, they have to launch it. That takes all kinds of time. Just think how long it takes just to get 1 space shuttle launched and put into orbit. You have delays for this and for that and because the stupid zero G toilet will not flush. Your lucky I guess, because this game is set in the distant future, if that were not the case and the super space plumbers were not on duty 24 hours a day, it might take you 5 weeks to get that bird into space!   

And you have to wait until all of the beer is loaded. I, for one, would not go off on a five-year mission with no beer.

Turning vaguely serious for a second, it'd make things a bit too easy if you could just buy your way out of trouble when the enemy invaders come a knocking. Unless you're suggesting immediate appearance but a 1 purchase per shipyard limit.

That's what I do.

I have no military until I have war declared on me, then I buy the warships I need and set all my planets to building transports.

And in 1.4, I get attacked before I buy, because the war declaration screen seems to be busted in this version.

And things dont just materialize out of thin air just cause you paid for it doesnt mean it will appear in front of your face.

Unless you paid to buy GalCiv2 online

Why would you pay to buy something?

because the alternative is stealing.

Unless you get a 5 fingered discount right?

Both of which you could be locked up for I might add....  

When you buy something, you pay for it.

But to pay to buy something would mean that you paid extra for the privilage to buy it.

It would be like handing Stardock $5 so that you could then buy the game.

The comment should have been worded:

Unless you paid for GalCiv2 online

or

Unless you bought GalCiv2 online

I think Nacho Samurai may have said "paid to buy" intentionally. Wasn't the download 39.99 while the MSRP in stores was $35? That means Moosetek's "crazy" idea of giving Stardock $5 so that you could then buy the game is not too far off base.

Yes, but sometimes you buy something just to continue paying for it.... No?

Say Dark Ages of Camelot or any other MMORPG....

You have to pay to play baby.... Gah.

Take the TBS games any day.

I think Nacho Samurai may have said "paid to buy" intentionally. Wasn't the download 39.99 while the MSRP in stores was $35? That means Moosetek's "crazy" idea of giving Stardock $5 so that you could then buy the game is not too far off base.

As far as I know, Stardock charges the MSRP and some stores discount the price, not the other way around.

And how much in gas would you spend to get to the retailer? It is a trade off.
But Stardock does not discount the price from the MSRP because it does not want to be in competition with the retailers.

(CompUSA currently sells GC2 for $19.98, by the way)

It takes the extra time because they have to get CG2 installed and updated for the crew through SDC....... With buildings, the employees do that while on the clock.

Hi!

when I purchase a ship the starport says it will be completed in 0 turns but I need to wait 1 turn for it to complete?

Design decision. But what really annoys me is: the millitary production that still goes into that "0 turns complete" ship IS WASTED! Not put into the next ship, not returned to treasury, just gone.

BR, Iztok

Just think of it as going towards readying the ship for flight.
Fueling, manning, supplying, dusting, test flight, etc.

what 0 turns left means


we have finished your ship the one you origanilly ordered now we have to rip out all of the guns and gadgets and put in the new ones that you just ordered

Hi!

Just think of it as going towards readying the ship for flight. Fueling, manning, supplying, dusting, test flight, etc.

I agree, if that would expressed this way: x BC for readying the ship. But if I reduce mil spending to 0% I still get that ship, in the same condition as it would be with all that money wasted. That's what annoys me: I can avoid waste if I put enough MM into the game. And that MM does not help game being more fun, just more tedious.

Well, it's not such a big deal in late game. In early game I can do it and save those few dozens of BCs.

BR, Iztok