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Well, its actually free!
No credits are taken from your credit pool...
Not in my game. I just bought a colony ship and it deducted 1.2k from my account.
Yes in the begining of the game was free for me too after 50-60 turns though it started to take money so i think this is bug.
I just tested it in a new game, and it did deduct the money from me.
It is free for me from the "quick build -> buy" menu
It cost money for me if i click the "money with up arrow" icon next to the "now building" progress bar.
(there is also a typo in the quick build -> buy tooltip. it says income instead of credits)
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It was free for me for the first three or four ships before it deducted from my bank. Something is definitely broken.
Good catch, we just tested it, and sure enough there is a bug letting you get free ships, if you select them straight form the list, and not from the queue, fixing it now. So enjoy it while it lasts 
That explains, why it didn't happen in my games. 
With respect, there are so many typos, inconsistencies, and sentence fragments that I just stopped documenting them altogether. If it were me, I would dedicate one person [with some English skills] on your end to take a single pass through ALL of the in-game text looking for these. There are so many at this point, I feel like it would be a lot quicker for you to do that than to waste everyone's time (including yours) dealing with bug reports for typos. Also, many of the event paragraphs and some tech descriptions could be reworded much better than they currently are. But, if you could at least fix the tool-tip for the Influence Growth modifier (currently spelled as "Influance"), that would be great! 
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