BOTF should hardly cost any money nowadays.
Most people do not double and triple check their build queues every turn, as there is no real benefit to doing so. Why check to make sure that the ships you ordered to be built Last turn are now on 4 tuns left instead of 5? Seems like a huge waste of time to me.
I personally have it set to display the number of facilities, and only check the planets that have empty slots, and nothing in the queue. I use the multi-add feature to add as many ships as I need in much less time than adding them one by one. Other than that, checking all the other queues every turn is a waste of time IMO.
Why constantly second-guess yourself? How often do you change your mind and remove partially built items from the queues and replace them with different items? That is a big waste of time (both real and game) and resources.
Now research should be checked every turn, as you normally get a tech or two each turn.
Same with Intel queues if you are in a game that uses that horribly broken system.
[ March 08, 2003, 00:02: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]