Building my first Starbase.... Not

[McGillicutti]

So I surveyed a new system and sent construction vessel there to build a starbase which will be an outpost but I've assigned the ship to move to the sun and do it more than 4 times already and nothing is built.

I'll click the construction vessel and it'll show a progress bar, even end, but nothing is built.

*Stumped*

[McGillicutti]

Found the poor intuitive problem.

I sent the constructor to the star. Clicked build starbase in the constructor, and it moves to the location and like I said shows a progress bar but builds nothing. No. Instead, apparently the ONLY way to build a starbase is to right click the sun and select that option from the menu. Sure seems obnoxiously overstrict to have it be just that one way but that the construction ship can't cue the orders 1) move to the star 2) build a starbase. It's already been surveyed by the science shop so just seems odd, like no one in the Dev team thought we'd think of sending the ship to a location and clicking the thing we want built there as the 2nd step. How old is Stellaris again? hahaha

[Daniel]

Is the system a trinary or binary?

[Meewec]

Originally posted by McGillicutti:

Found the poor intuitive problem.

I sent the constructor to the star. Clicked build starbase in the constructor, and it moves to the location and like I said shows a progress bar but builds nothing. No. Instead, apparently the ONLY way to build a starbase is to right click the sun and select that option from the menu. Sure seems obnoxiously overstrict to have it be just that one way but that the construction ship can't cue the orders 1) move to the star 2) build a starbase. It's already been surveyed by the science shop so just seems odd, like no one in the Dev team thought we'd think of sending the ship to a location and clicking the thing we want built there as the 2nd step. How old is Stellaris again? hahaha

i just right click the systems from the galaxy map to build everything

[McGillicutti]

Originally posted by Meewec:

Originally posted by McGillicutti:

Found the poor intuitive problem.

I sent the constructor to the star. Clicked build starbase in the constructor, and it moves to the location and like I said shows a progress bar but builds nothing. No. Instead, apparently the ONLY way to build a starbase is to right click the sun and select that option from the menu. Sure seems obnoxiously overstrict to have it be just that one way but that the construction ship can't cue the orders 1) move to the star 2) build a starbase. It's already been surveyed by the science shop so just seems odd, like no one in the Dev team thought we'd think of sending the ship to a location and clicking the thing we want built there as the 2nd step. How old is Stellaris again? hahaha

i just right click the systems from the galaxy map to build everything

Yeah figuring that out. Just wasted so many years thinking it was building something it wasn't hahaha

[Oakshield]

If you select the option from the ship itself, a green outlining of the base should show up. Click at that to get a confermation question, click yes and it should build the starbase.

Makes me wonder if you had zoomed out enough to see that green outlining showing up.

Thorin :)

[McGillicutti]

Originally posted by Oakshield:

If you select the option from the ship itself, a green outlining of the base should show up. Click at that to get a confermation question, click yes and it should build the starbase.

Makes me wonder if you had zoomed out enough to see that green outlining showing up.

Thorin :)

When it works without the right click, which i did for mining stations with the same, to me, insanity, 3 drones would come out of the construction ship and be making noise, no outline though, and what they were making didn't show up until they were finished.

[Grimmrog_SIG]

the game semms to be buggy a few times,

tried to right click and build megastructure on a plent, didn't work. using the ships menu instead suddenly worked. It's just freaking out a bit soemtimes.