[bug?] Ship build queue and fleet research

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I queued the last 2 fleet upgrades. I then selected frigate factories in separate gravity wells to build Heavy Cruisers. So fleet showed a negative number. The first fleet upgrade kicked in but nothing built. I deselected the heavy crusiers from one gravity well until there was no longer a negative number in fleet supply. After that they began to build at the other gravity well. I thought okay, fine, now that they are building I can queue the other factory and then they will begin building once the last fleet supply upgrade is done researching. Nope. The factories at the other gravity well stopped building again.

The summary then is if you queue more than one fleet supply upgrade and then queue to build beyond the first upgrade the game will wait to build ships until both upgrades are researched.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

So what did you expect? It would build the ships that were in the positive and once it reached there, it will stop till the researach is done?

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I expected I would be able to research the next two fleet upgrades and queue the factories to build the ships. I thought as the fleet upgrades became available, ships would begin to build. What I had was 64 HC queued to build (10 fleet supply each) and 2 fleet upgrades researching. Each upgrade would add 320 fleet supply. My fleet supply was a negative 640. But when the first upgrade was researched then the fleet supply became -320. I expected at least some ships would begin to build since not all of the queued ships were "in the red" However no ships would build until the fleet supply was not a red negative number. They would begin to build if I removed enough queued builds to make fleet supply  0. So all factories are shutdown when you have a negative fleet supply even though you may have enough supply to cover some of the builds.

Easy enough to work around. A rare occurance that anyone would research 2 fleet upgrades at the same time. I thought it interesting enough to mention but if Ironclad never fixed it that would be fine with me. I just thought they might like to know.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

This does happen when you only research one upgrade, too.

If I have 40 Fleet supply left, and hit a research to start, if I queue up 11 LRMs, they won't build until I make the number 10 (to bring it to 0). No factories will build if fleet supply goes into a negative, even if the factories can build some of the ships.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Good to know. If you get into a battle while researching a fleet upgrade. Don't get into a negative fleet supply if you want your ships to get replaced.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Nifty!

I'll store this away for future reference...