I'm not really sure how this happened, but in my first game when I wanted to build a colony ship, there was no colony ship in the list of available ships to build (took me a long time to figure out this was a problem since this was my first game, I kept thinking I needed to research something for them). Anyway, I have played a few games since then and the colony ship was available from the get go in those games. I just thought it might be worth mentioning and was wondering if anyone else had similar problems.
