How to manage a large empire toward end game?

[Yef]

The best way to manage large empires, is to not have large empires, at least when playing against the AI.

- Only colonize homeworld type planets. (rock) (and it looks cooler than having an entire system colonized, plus you don't have to be checking what kind of planet you are going to colonize, to send the right kind of colonizer)

- Only build colonizers in a single orbital shipyard, in orbit on your homeworld, so you get a new planet every 7 or 8 turns or more. This way you will only have a few items being build by turn.

- Use the "fill que" funtion.

- Build at least 10 troop units per planet, so you don't have to micromanage the planets' mood sending fleets to their sectors.