"Fill Queue" tricks

[Slick]

This may be common knowledge, but I thought I'd share 2 neat tricks I use with the "Fill Queue" option.

1) It always frustrated me that you couldn't add ships to a planet's build queue until after it had a spaceyard. I wanted to say: build spaceyard, build ship, build other ship, etc. Well you can. Here's how: go to a planet that does have a spaceyard and add your ship to the build queue and add it to the named queues. Then on your next planet where you want to build a spaceyard then ships in one fell swoop, add the spaceyard to the queue, then add the ships via the fill queue option. Works like a champ.

2) It always frustrated me that you can't add the exact number of units to be created to a queue. You have "one turn's worth" and 1, 5, etc. Well it isn't perfect, but if you find a planet that has its construction rate just so that you can make 2 of a given unit by building "one turn's worth", then save that queue. You can then use that named queue anywhere to build 2 of that unit, even if the "one turn's worth" on that particular planet is different from 2. If you work at it, you can build up lots of different numbers of unit queues other than the 1, 5, 10, etc.

Slick.