Structure construction - unfinished

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Hello everyone,

I am a new player having only recently seen and purchased this game and I must say... whew, very addictive! I found myself looking up at the clock yesterday to find that 3 hours had gone by in what seemed like 20 minutes. :LOL: That is something I have not experienced in quite awhile.

In the game I am playing (my second), something strange happened and I wondered if anyone else had this happen to them: I had built a planetary shield and jump inhibitor at the outermost planet of my sector and noticed that after everything was built up those two structures were not completed, actually they were not even started... they were still transparent. I only found this because I had zoomed in to take a closer look at things. I am not sure if it was something I did, or didn't do or if they are actually operational. They are however shown as 0% completed when I put my cursor over them. Any help is appreciated.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
The game allows you to queue up buildings to be built before they've actually been researched as long as you have the research in the queue. They'll start building once the prerequisite research has been completed.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Ah... I actually thought that might be it and was going to check it tonight... thanks
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
A more likely reason isthat your construction ships are occupied with another construction at the time. If you want to jump the queue you could command the ship to start your shield generators first if you like.

If you have not yet researched the construction you will not be allowed to queue it in the construction as the prerequisite is not met.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
What apparently happened was the research had been queued but not completed. I had tried to manually redirect the construction ships but they would only arrive at the new location and sit idle. Once the research was completed though, the construction ship went right to work!