Construction Queues

Description

| Construction Queues are the items that your ships and planets construct. A construction queue is literally a list of items that your vehicle will construct in order. |

Elements of a Construction Queue

| Space Yard | All planets contain a construction queue as they can always build facilities and units. Ships will only have a construction queue if they contain a Space Yard component. A Space Yard component is required for a ship or a planet to be able to construct ships in space.
| Rate | Every construction queue has a rate at which is uses resources to build an item. The rate determines how long it will take to construct an item (the time being the total resource cost of the item divided by the construction queue rate). The rate for a construction queue is determined on a ship by the rate of the space yard. The rate for a planet is determined by the population modifiers present. The rate can also be increased or decreased if the queue is in "emergency build mode" or "slow mode".
| Emergency Build | This option will put your construction queue into an "emergency build mode". While in "emergency build mode", your construction queue will produce at double its normal rate. You can leave this option on for up to 10 turns. When you turn it off, or the 10 turns are reached, your construction queue will go into "slow mode" for the same number of turns that is was in "emergency mode". While in "slow mode" the construction queue will produce at half of its normal rate.
| Repeat Build | This option causes your construction queue to repeat the top item in the list. The top item will be repeated indefinitely.
| Queue On Hold | This option puts your construction queue on hold. The item currently under construction will be paused until you turn this option off. This is typically used when you want to lower your overall costs, but don't want to actually delete the items in your construction queues. You can just put them on hold to stop your costs, and them start them up again when you have the resources.
| New Items | When new ships are completed, they will appear in the same location as the construction queue. Ships do not show up while they are under construction. Facilities are constructed on the planet. You can only add as many facilities to the construction queue as the planet can hold. Units that are constructed will first be added to the cargo of the ship or planet that has this construction queue. If space runs out, then the units will attempt to be placed in any other cargo space that this player owns. If no space at all is available to hold the cargo, then the unit will not be constructed and you will receive a message in your log report warning you of the situation.
| Upgrades | Upgrades are used to upgrade the facilities which are present on a planet. They allow you to change older versions of a facility to the latest version. One upgrade will cause all of old facilities on the planet to change. The for the upgrade is calculated as a percentage of the facility cost times the number of facilities that need to be changed.

Special Notes

| None |

Related Areas

| Construction Queues Window, Set Construction Queue Window |