My Colony v0.48.0 - Web client (Chrome 62.0.3202.62 on Windows)
Buildings in the sidebar that become affordable when their resource requirements are met take ~20 seconds to actually become clickable. They stay red during this time, as if the sidebar has a 20-second lag before updating and realizing that the building can now be built.
When this happens, the building can be built from the Build menu of the appropriate Builder; it's only disabled in the sidebar interface.
This is on a Medium map on a Windows 10 PC with 8 GB RAM, an i5-4670k and a GTX 780... the rest of the game never lags.
It is just the way the game updates its in game stats
Not a bug It checks every so offton its not fluid
Why not check more frequently, at least on mid- to high-performance platforms?
An alternative solution would be to at least force an update when an item is clicked. Or maybe force an update when the mouse hovers over the sidebar if no automatic update has happened recently.
It used to check more frequently but it was causing problems and lag. Author had to separate the update functions so that things worked better.
To get around it you can also select the bots that build the item you want and probably start a build quicker.
For the next update (if i remember) i will test the performance of updating the affordability status when you "mouse-over" one of the build options
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