Please forgive me if these issues have already been brought up, but I searched the forums (an auto search function would be spiffy!) and was unable to find anything similar.

1. One of my colonies has a starport but when I task it to build a ship it doesn't build. In the display it shows build time as 0 weeks, and the purchase button is greyed out. This starport never completes building the ship in the queue. I tried destroying the starport and then rebuilding it, but I get the same results when I once again put a new ship in the queue.

2. When I load a saved game for the first few turns both the AI and myself suffer an Industrial/Economic crash. It's almost as if the game has to recalibrate all of our population tax/income, and spending settings for the first few turns. On the time line graph it is visible as a huge downward spike on the graph by all civs. Since the AI is also hamstrung by this, it doesn't ruin playablity but it takes a few turns for things to readjust. I don't know if this happens every time. I have only loaded my save game once. I will observe this again tonight to verify whether or not it is a consistent issue.

Please feel free to redirect me if this issue has been addressed or I have repeated someone elses post.

Thank you! Great Game!