Things in SEIV I never knew about....

[Slick]

Here's a neat trick that I just learned. Probably lots of people knew about it.

I was always frustrated when I set up a new planet and I wanted to give it orders to build a spaceyard then build some ships. If you do with the normal "Build Queue" window, the queue won't let you add ships/bases to the queue until after you have the spaceyard built. So under normal circumstances you have to come back to the planet queue after the spaceyard is built to add your ships/bases.

But there is a way around this. First find a planet with a spaceyard and an empty queue. You can make custom queues using the "Fill Queue" button for ships/bases or whatever. Once the custom queue is memorized, go back to your new planet and now you can add the spaceyard using the normal method and also add ships using the custom "Fill Queue" button. This method lets you add ships/bases to a queue without a spaceyard (yet). Helps lower some of the micromanagement.

You probably get an error of some kind if you try this without sequencing the spaceyard before the ships. I haven't tried that since it obviously won't work.

Slick.