Hi, I have what's hopefully a very straightforward query about ship design. I've just started my first game and have designed a ship (the Dumbledorf 2) for use in my war with the ineffectually belligerent Cravers. Because it uses lasers it requires Hyperium, which I have on two of my planets. The planets mouseover explicitly says "YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THIS RESOURCE". Yet when I am trying to build the Dumbledorf 2 the ship is greyed out, and Hyperium highlighted in red, presumably because it's not available for building, even in the system that contains Hyperium. Is there something specific I have to do to use it for shipbuilding?



My empire overview shows I have access to 3 Anti matter but 0 Hyperium. Any advice?



Good game Btw.

Interesting. Maybe there is a pirate ship sitting in your system with Hyperium. Pirates are a real pain. You can turn them off in the advanced options tab, which I highly recommend. Even if you have an armed ship in the system, they can still blockade. Also, I am sure you must have a colony on the planet with Hyperium; it is not enough to just havea colony on another planet in the system.



If it is neither of these things, can you zip a save game and attach it to a post?

davea wrote:
Interesting. Maybe there is a pirate ship sitting in your system with Hyperium. Pirates are a real pain. You can turn them off in the advanced options tab, which I highly recommend. Even if you have an armed ship in the system, they can still blockade. Also, I am sure you must have a colony on the planet with Hyperium; it is not enough to just havea colony on another planet in the system.



If it is neither of these things, can you zip a save game and attach it to a post?

Regretfully it doesn't seem to be that interesting! Your first diagnosis was right, it's because of pirates. I've been sitting my fleets in Carver systems rather than go around fending off pirates because they didn't seem to be doing much. This would be a good feature to be mentioned when the full game is released. Thanks very much for your help, it should let me get on with things.

Answered, closed/