not building fighters: fix
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2023 3:13 am
FYI, sharing discovery and end of frustrating period in DW2:
For many in-game years, my fleets and bases refused to build any new fighter/bomber craft. All hangers soon became barren. I'd thought it was because of resource shortages, as several of my resources showed up red with less being mined than projected demand. I spammed endless new mining stations trying to overcome the shortfall, but to no avail. In fact, I was falling further and further behind and in the red.
I manually created new bomber and fighter designs, but still none of the hangers produced any new fighters or bombers.
Then, in an effort to count the number of fighters/bombers remaining, I opened the ship designs list and added up all the active designs. I noticed there were many with the same name and began to mark them obsolete, keeping only the newest design I'd manually created. Shortly after this all my hangers began building new fighters and bombers. yay!
I believe I acquired many of these designs by capturing pirate ships and the few hive carrier ships that entered my territory. I suspect these conflicting fighter/bomber design names confused the automatic building of replacement fighter/bombers. Once the list of available designs was cleaned up, things worked again.
So, if you're not seeing any new fighters being built, I suggest cleaning out the design list and that might solve your problem as well.
Resource shortages do not prevent figher/bomber building.
For many in-game years, my fleets and bases refused to build any new fighter/bomber craft. All hangers soon became barren. I'd thought it was because of resource shortages, as several of my resources showed up red with less being mined than projected demand. I spammed endless new mining stations trying to overcome the shortfall, but to no avail. In fact, I was falling further and further behind and in the red.
I manually created new bomber and fighter designs, but still none of the hangers produced any new fighters or bombers.
Then, in an effort to count the number of fighters/bombers remaining, I opened the ship designs list and added up all the active designs. I noticed there were many with the same name and began to mark them obsolete, keeping only the newest design I'd manually created. Shortly after this all my hangers began building new fighters and bombers. yay!
I believe I acquired many of these designs by capturing pirate ships and the few hive carrier ships that entered my territory. I suspect these conflicting fighter/bomber design names confused the automatic building of replacement fighter/bombers. Once the list of available designs was cleaned up, things worked again.
So, if you're not seeing any new fighters being built, I suggest cleaning out the design list and that might solve your problem as well.
Resource shortages do not prevent figher/bomber building.