Re: What Would Really HELP
 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR> It would be nice to put notes on ships, fleets, and planets.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You can do this with the Name button for ships, preferably with short, abbreviated codes. I don't remember whether you can rename planets; I've never tried it. I think for fleets you'd have to Remove All, Create New Fleet with a different name, and Add All.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Another really nice feature would be the ability to get Messages when a ship completes its orders, either when it arrives at its destination, or for example if you have it on "recover" it would pop up a message letting you know it's now full so you can move along with it.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
This can be done by checking Ships (F6) Orders button, and looking at the icons. This is admittedly tedious if you do it every turn.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Related to that, a message for any planet that has completed its construction queue and is not maxed on facilities.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>As above, you can do this in Construction Queues (F7).

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Cap'n Q

Re: What Would Really HELP
 

You can rename ships, fleets, and planets. Might be able to rename unit Groups, not sure on that, however.

The system I use is to simply go from right to left on the galaxy map and check everything (sometimes I will do war fronts first, then go through each system). If I leave the game for a length of time and want to remember to do something, I just stick a Post-It on the edge of the monitor with the reminder. I don't use the System Notes feature, since I find it a bit more tedious than the SE3 system (right click, notes, and that's it... I never really used the notes in SE3 though either, never was much need http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif ).