Why can't I build ships?

Every time I've tried to play, i can only buy ships at the planet in order to produce them even after having a starport and factories built...the build queue for the ship still says never for progress...is this a bug?
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Reply #1 Top
What is your military slider set at (in the economics screen where you set the tax rate, overall spending rate, etc...)? "Military" spending really means "ship building".
Reply #2 Top
^ Exactly. If your military spending is on 0 you will never build ships, it took me a while to figure that out too.
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i have run into a problem sometimes usually it is a colony ship anyways the read out says 0 turns to build but ship won't build until i buy it
Reply #4 Top
I remember in the first galactic civilizations, a similar thing happened to me. The problem was that I went so far into debt that I couldn't spend money on anything, including ship construction.