They won't phase jump.  If you want to have construction frigates at another planet, you need to colonize it first.    So send over your capital ship and a couple frigates to kill off the militia and then send your colnizer frigate (or your cap if it's a mothership that can colonize) to take the planet and a construction frigate will appear for you instantly.

jetheren is right, we all were beginners at some point, and some of us remember what it was like and want to help ease the transition to people the enjoy the play & possibly want to make different maps and or alterations to the game(mods) to increas our enjoyment of the game

harpo

I found it helpful to run through the game tutorial a couple times, say once a week during my first month of play.  I did it so that I could pick more advanced knowledge about how to manage things, such as how to cycle through units, that I might not have paid attention to at the very start.

i remember my first game i moved to the next planet and freaked out when i saw the militia there (was a desert planet, so alot of ships) and i was thinking OMG, the AI in this game is REALLY hard... =P i ended up skirting that entire planet until ages into the game when i realised it was militia...

WELL CRAP!!!

The demo evidently has a 90 minute time period on a game!  *sigh* 

SoaSE was the fastest game I've ever bought after using a demo, I liked it so much. I didn't need further testing. Normally I'll spend quite a bit of time with the demo before relenting and buying the game.

haha, yeah, me too