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title: 'Quick Help Guide'
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# Quick Help Guide

Selfhelp-guide for if something went wrong.

I can't build a building:

- Do you have positive plot count? (-1 means you are in a place your species can't live in, you need
  terra and/or GG platforms to get it positive again. 0 means you can't build another building that
  requires a plot)
- Have you met the requirments (other [buildings](/wiki/buildings/) (with the right level's ?)) of
  the building ?
- Do you have the [resources](/wiki/resources/) for the building (production and stored
  [resources](/wiki/resources/)) ?
- Is there still space in the build-queue ?

I can't upgrade a building:

- [Glyph](/wiki/glyph/) [buildings](/wiki/buildings/) need the amount of halls eqal to the level you
  want to build them to.
- Do you have the right UNI level to level the building up ?
- Do you have the [resources](/wiki/resources/) for the building (production and stored
  [resources](/wiki/resources/)) ?
- Do you have the right level of your [Stockpile](/wiki/stockpile/) (if it is a resource building
  and it is on your [Capitol](/wiki/capitol/) planet.)
- Is there still space in the build-queue ?

I can't build a plan:

- Do you have positive plot count (not needed for [glyph](/wiki/glyph/)
  [buildings](/wiki/buildings/)) ?
- Do you have the right plan ? (a level 5 plan wont build a level 5 building, it upgrades a level 4
  to a level 5)
- Is your production positive ?
- Is there still space in the build-queue ?

I can't build a ship:

- Have you met the requirements ([buildings](/wiki/buildings/) (with the right level's ?)) of the
  ship?
- Do you have the [resources](/wiki/resources/) for the ship ?
- Do you have space in your [space port](/wiki/space-port/) for another ship ?
- Is there still space in the build-queue of your [shipyard](/wiki/shipyard/) ?

My ship is shot down:

- A planet in that star system has a SAW. A SAW will shoot down any non-allied [ships](/wiki/ships/)
  that have a combat rating which are sent to any planet in the system. Note: If you had sent to an
  inhabitted planet, it might also have defence [ships](/wiki/ships/) ([sweeper](/wiki/sweeper/)s,
  [fighter](/wiki/fighter/)s, [drone](/wiki/drone/)s) as well as at least one SAW.
- Send attack [ships](/wiki/ships/) ([sweeper](/wiki/sweeper/)s) as escorts to get rid on the SAW
  defence, or go for another planet at another star. (If you decide to kill the SAW's by sending
  more fleets you can expect the player that owns them not to like you that much afterwards.)

I have negative [happiness](/wiki/happiness/):

- Is your production negative as well ?
- Have you build up [Security Ministry](/wiki/security-ministry/) recently ?
- Do you have a [waste](/wiki/waste/)\-chain that ran out of [waste](/wiki/waste/) ?
- Do you have a lot of [pollution](/wiki/pollution/)?
- Are you producing less than three different food types?
- Are you hit by a [scow](/wiki/scow/) (or [scow](/wiki/scow/)\_fast, [Scow](/wiki/scow/)\_large,
  [scow](/wiki/scow/)\_mega) ?
- There may be [spies](/wiki/spies/) on your colony !!
- Did you got hit by a BHG side effect ?
- Are there [cult of the fissure](/wiki/cult-of-the-fissure/) [spies](/wiki/spies/) on your planet ?
  They hate people!! Kill them with fire!!

I have damage on my planet:

- Did you run out of a resource ? (see pcc for the list of [resources](/wiki/resources/).)
- Did you run out of [waste](/wiki/waste/) ?
- Are you hit by a ship/fleet from another player ?
- Did you got hit by a BHG side effect ? (or a [Fissure](/wiki/fissure/) exposion ?)
- There may be [spies](/wiki/spies/) on your colony !!

If needed:sorry for my spelling