I accidentally built a shipyard on a planet that was a sponsor of another nearby shipyard. When the new shipyard spawned, my next-turn button said "orphaned shipyard" so I couldn't proceed to the next turn, but if I clicked on that button or opened the relevant shipyard's management screen, the game crashed (I am pretty sure because there were no potential planetary sponsors in range).
So firstly, it's a crash bug that needs to be fixed. But hopefully that will be easy.
Secondly, even if the game hadn't crashed, I wouldn't have been able to assign a planetary sponsor to the shipyard, and would have been unable to proceed with the game.
- We need to be able to acknowledge and skip the orphaned shipyard notification. Or...
- We need to be able to resolve the situation by destroying the extra shipyard somehow. Or...
- The game shouldn't let us make a shipyard in that situation (worst solution, imho).
Edit: The crash isn't because of no eligible sponsors in range; I just loaded from the autosave, removed the closest planet as sponsor of the other starbase, then tried to open the management screen for the orphaned shipyard to add the newly-available sponsor. Same crash occurred. So maybe it won't be so easy to fix after all... I'll open a support ticket and upload the error logs, dump file, and a copy of the save.