space ship components?

[that_guy]

I'm probably just missing something, but this has me puzzled. In a game a few days ago, I was the dominant civ and had my empire well developed. Sufficient resources, all cities connected by rail, lots of improvements, etc. However when I started building space ship components, I found some cities (including one of my top producers) unable to select ANY of them from the production queue. I could go to the ship screen and call up the Assign dialog, point it to one of the non-functioning cities and it didn't complain. But production would never start, whether I told it to start immediately or place it in the queue.

As far as I could tell, the cities all had the same improvements, though I may have missed something. Is there some improvement that's absolutely necessary for space ship component production that I just overlooked?

BTW I did finally get the thing built and found I was in the same boat as some others have noted. Once it was built (I had just checked the ship screen and saw 1 turn left for the last component) I was never able to get to the ship screen again. F10 was dead. So I guess it never launched? I didn't have time to find out much more, since a couple of turns later all my erstwhile "friends" decided to start World War III

 

[Hamlet]

You, or some other civiliztion needs to have built the "Apollo program" wonder before spaceship parts can be built, although I assume you had that already. You need adequate tech level, also. Check Civpedia for more info if you get stuck.

 

[that_guy]

On further review ...

I dug up a save game (about 5 or 6 turns before finishing the Apollo Project), and gave it another go. And the component building blockage was gone. I could build any component for which I had needed tech in any city. Go figure.

I also realized what may have happened with the missing launch. In both cases, I was in the post-game (I'd already won by a UN victory - my first win on Warlord ) So it could be the space ship launch is just disabled there. Which sucks, IMNSHO.