Crashed on purchasing multiple buildings new colony

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I colonized a new planet/star system and purchased several new buildings the same turn only to have the game crash. I'd done this previously but this was a saved game i restarted.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Dominic,
when you purchase a new building you only receive it the following turn! When you purchase, all you do is purchase build potential. You can then change the build item to something else if you want. Multiple purchases should just increase the build potential, not buy multiple buildings. Not sure why you got a crash though.

Paul
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
if you only increase the build potential and don't actually get the buildings you just paid for, how come the next turn all three buildings are no longer in the 'available to build' list for that planet? I assumed that meant that I had built them, even if it takes a turn to take effect.
Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I'm guessing here....

You can rush buy a building. If you switch 1/2 way thru construction, your build potential does not switch to the new building. Military projects (ships) the potential does switch.

So the way the game is currently set up, you can build multiple social (building) projects due to the fact that the potential is not transfered, but it stays with the building that was being constructed. Military projects it does transfer, so if constructing a battleship and then switching to a defender, you will get a defender each turn until the potential you have accumilated runs out.

I don't think this is a bug. This is an exploit (that I suspect will be changed to only allow one purchase per turn).