Cruiser Factory Stuck!

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I'm playing my first game with 1.04.  I'm about 3 hours into the game, a medium random 4 x 4.

But I can't go forward, because my cruiser factory has gotten stuck!

I have one Frigate Factory, at my home planet. I don't have enough planets or logistics slots to make another one somewhere else. The frigate side of the factory is still working.  My cap ship factor is working.  But the cruiser side of the Frigate Factory has frozen up.  I have four robot cruisers cued and three heavy cruisers.  I have plenty of resources and plenty of ship capacity. The factory is just not making those orders. There is no progress bar for the slots for the robot or heavy cruisers. It's showing the cruiser slots lit up and ready for more orders. After a long wait, I cued up a couple more, and everything is frozen.

Does anybody have a clue about how to crack the whip to make those lazy shipyard workers get back to work?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Have you actually completed the research for those cruiser types? You can queue up the research and the option to make the cruisers will be highlighted but they won't actually start building until the research is finished.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Are you currently building frigates that got queued up before the cruisers?
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
youre three hours into a game and dont have room at any of your planets for another factory? develop a logistics slot somewhere, you should have more then one frigate factory pumping out units anyway, preferably near your front line.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Oh for crying out loud! Sorry for false alarm. It turns out I had not finished the research for robot and heavy cruisers, so I could queue them but not yet build them.
Sakhari nailed it in his first response. Thanks.

I'm familiar with that game mechanic. I've played many games over the past few weeks. I just got confused, because for some reason I had the mistaken idea that all current research was completed and that I was saving resources for fleet expansion instead of research for awhile.

I'm glad to know I'll be able to finish this game. But too bad I still have to wait for the heavies.

Incidentally, on a map like this, in my experience it's not that unusual to be about three hours in and to be short of logistics slots. Me and 3 AIs are fighting it out over something like 20 or 25 planets (I don't see the whole map yet). I currently have five, all fully developed. I have some logistics slots open, but I'm saving them for future labs and refineries.