[Taqwus]

1. Aye. I'm not fond of using formations. At least in tactical, you can immediately cancel everybody's membership in the group and move 'em all individually.

2. There are only a few cases where you'd want to divide evenly, AFAICT. One is where you're a subjugated empire, but plotting to break free soon; another is where you're close to becoming Mega-Evil. In both cases, you may be better off with a lot of tech at once (in the former case, because you can break off the treaty, and then receive a raft of combat techs the next turn -- if you went one at a time, you'd have to either a) turn them over, or b) break the treaty relatively unprepared; in the latter case you may want remain below Mega-Evil status until you're ready for an upgraded design and a refit).

Maybe they were thinking of adding a bonus for dividing evenly at some point. *shrug*

3. Agreed. I suspect I've asked Malfador about flagging zero-pop colonies and various other brands of obvious silliness.

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