Tricks to reducing micromanagement in SE4

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The ministers are a useless bunch, so you ought to do your own managment.

Waypoints are great, put one on every planet with fleet/ship Training, Stagingareas and important Rrefuelingstations. "Ctrl+1" sends the selected fleet/ship to Waypont 1.

Use the Hotkeys and the different Windows to reduce the actual click-work.

This is my personal way to repopulate my planets with alien population, there may be easier ways:
- Go to the Colony Window (F5)
- select "General" and sort by athmosphere
- select "Races"
This gives a great overview of your population and make planning the transfer easy.
I usually keep it sorted like this until most of my planets have the right population.

Then to move the population:
- Select the transport ship
- Hit T (transfer cargo)
- Transfer population (mouse)
- Close Window (Esc or enter)
- Reselect ship
- Hit M (Move)
- Hit F5 (Colony window)
- Select the right planet from the list (mouse)

Hope some of this is usefull