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Yin, I finally read your reply and I am guessing at what you are doing.

Use the Colony ship hull design for your colonizing ships, at least to start. I notice that some AI's will use warship hulls to make colonization ships. I guess this could work as you could build faster colonization ships/defenses/weapons/etc.

It sounds like you are building population transports with the small transport hulls and including colonization component. Make your population transports using only cargo holds. You should have enough room to put your command components(bridge, life support, crew quarters), 5 engines and sufficient cargo holds(10 or 11 cargo units). You might wish to add a supply unit as well, to extend the range of your transport.

There are three buttons in the top menu: Load(box with up arrow above it), Unload(box with down arrow above it) and Load/Unload(box with up and down arrows above it). You find them near the Launch and Recover buttons. I am talking about using the Load/Unload button. You can only use it when you are above one of your planets or some cargo source. The button you are using is the Load button, which will direct your ship to a particular spot and then load to the maximum it can. The Load/Unload button can't be used in a set of ship commands.

Good luck!!