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I have several colonies and resort bases but privates have never built a single passenger ship.

Also medium freighters which proper designs are available - also are not built.

Privates have enough cash on hands and build mining ships without problems.

I have a similar problem. Medium Freighters are not being ordered by the private sector, but Passenger Ships are.

Have you heard anything back?

Just had a similar issue. I was wondering why my tourism income had tanked. The AI had 54 Medium Freighters, 59 small Freighter, 0 Passenger ships, 3 Resorts in place. A year later it was 56 Medium, 0 Small freighters, still 0 Passenger ships, but now 4 resorts. I obsoleted the Passenger Design and rebuilt the same ship, exactly and suddenly there were a dozen passenger ships.

Is there any chance that the new ship designs required materials you didn't have in stock?

dostillevi wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 1:03 am Is there any chance that the new ship designs required materials you didn't have in stock?

It could be a combination of this and that the Civ AI doesn't moderate their builds. It tends to save up and buy in job lots.
Still seems odd but the AI determines it needs 50 something, and rather than filling in 5 at a time, it might just hold off until cash and materials for 50 are available.

I have the issue that the Private Economy keeps stores several 100k's to latest 2400k, only to spend it all in one go.
Luckily I managed to get before/after savegames.

I've tried deleting my Medium Freighter design and recreating it. I've tried an automatically created design verses a custom design. I've tried obsoleting the Small Freighter so only the Medium is active. I have plenty of resources and the private economy has plenty of cash. No Medium Freighters are being built. No Small Freighters are upgrading to Medium Freighters. As soon as I activate the Small Freighter again, building immediately starts back up. Especially if I've had the Small Freighters obsolete for a while...

I just ran a test. I scuttled every single small freighter in my empire. I then deleted every single freighter ship blueprint. Then I created a single Large Freighter and didn't change anything. Just the auto-build. Finally I just ran the game on 4x speed and let things go.

Eventually/Finally, once the private economy got enough cash to purchase 120 large freighters, it made a massive order for nearly 1.3 million. Now I have large freighters. No idea why 120 is the magic number, but it was in my case.

I reloaded a save before the mass purchase and tried again but with a medium freighter. The private economy had to save up enough to purchase 243! So about 2.3 million. Maybe it was 240, and then they built 3 more before I could pause the game. Not sure.

Whatever the case, this is a pretty serious bug. I have no idea how stymied my freight transportation is being stuck running small freighters, but moving more cargo has got to be better right?