Colony ships bug

[Seh]

I tried to make a colonization ship and it didnt pop up when it was finished. Tried it three times now... It worked before because I already colonized three planets . It does cost me minerals so there must be something wrong with the moment it finishes the time it takes to make it.

I am not sure but I think other things are bugged out too, I researched a tech (something with shield, a purple one) and after it finished it popped up again as an option. It was the same one.

 

[Ragotag]

Can confirm this [Colony Ship Bug], has happened to me. Have 2/5 planets colonized; I queue up a colony ship, it spends the minerals, takes about a year, then refunds the minerals and fails to deploy a colony ship -- did this three times in a row before I gave up. On another note, this did not happen with the stock colony ships, but is happening with my custom built colony ships. NO messages display that indicate why this is happening, so I assume it's a bug or missed warning message of some type.

Frustrating to have play-through #1 stopped dead in it's tracks until until a work around gets posted... oh well.

Edit: Figured out part of why I observed this issue... I had no colony ship designs... at all. Not sure what caused my custom colony ship design to disappear, but after recreating a new one, suddenly building a colony ship worked as expected. Furthermore, when selecting a colony ship to queue up, it does not display the class name of possible colony ships in the picker/queued section like it does for all ships and stations. Seems there may be some code or UI display logic missing regarding colony ships. At a minimum, if you have no ship designs for a given class, the UI should not let you queue up ship production for that class.

 

[Von Thoma]

JUST two of my colony ships HAVE BEEN DELETED after completion ....

the problem was I was able to choose a COLONY SHIP from the building menue, but at that Point I didn't had a colony ship design ???????
as I have deleted all Computer made and built my own, but forgot to build a colony ship design ...
but even when there have been NO colony ship design in the ship designer, I was able to choose one !

Now I built a new one BUT THAT ISN't possible to choose from the menue ???

SO WHAT TO DO ...

FOUND A SOLUTION, when you build a Design called/named

"Colony Ship"

he once again builds colony ships ,,, cost me over 1000 Minerals in our MP game to find that out, but now we could continue our game at least

 

[szmik]

So you can build colony ships, but without design they aren't built at all. A warning about lack of design would be nice.

 

[Veros]

Once you create a design for a colony ship you can build them again.

 

[Chief of Staff]

I had this same experience and was at a loss until I saw this thread and solved the problem. I didn't realize that I had accidentally deleted the colony ship design while updating all other existing ship type designs to take account for latest tech developments so I ended up wasting minerals as result of this accident.

This need to be accident-proof. I suggest that the game in future check against the ship designs, either at start or end of ship construction, and if none are found for the ship type, the default one is automatically re-created.

 

[PDS-YakAttack]

Hello!
The issue is indeed what has been mentioned in this thread. Deleting your Colony Ship design still allows you to build a Colony Ship that then does not appear. This is known and is being worked on.
Thank you all for posting.