Terraformers not working..

[Goron]

Thanks for the clarification all, and for alerting me to the awesome (in my opinion) exploit to make a factory built terraforming ship by adding a single orbital habitat module.

Now I just need to build a couple... after I build a navy to destroy the aliens that WERE neutral until they decided to blow up some of my civilian colony ships. Unfortunately I am having some serious duranium shortage issues and can't run factories and shipbuilding simultaneously.

[Girlinhat]

If you want some real terraforming power, then add a few cargo, a few cryo, and carry some industrial complexes.  If you're doing it right, you should be able to move to a planet, set the construction down, and start building infrastructure or whatever even while still terraforming.  If the gravity or temperature is too far outside the extreme for a 0.0 end, then you might enjoy the ability to build infrastructure to get things running more quickly.

[Goron]

But then your cargo/cryo holds and go to no use as soon as it first arrives and delivers the cargo. I'd rather devote the extra tonnage to shipyard built freighters and colony ships so that they can keep providing a continual flow of goods.