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Old December 21st, 2002, 12:14 AM
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It's also occurred to me that my Hypermaze mod slows your development down enough to reduce your micromanagement; you only have a fraction as many habitable systems to deal with.

You do have to pay more attention to supply, though. I regularly have to send a tender to rescue ships that ran out of supplies in hyperspace.
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What I use a lot to reduce the micro-management is the "repeat" order for construction. Together with way points this saves me quite a bit of work. When the cargo of a planet is full and I get the message in the log file, I send a carrier/transport to the planet and load the units and construction can continue.
What I miss is a "next system" button as you have now a next ship/fleet/planet. I go through my empire system by system and I always have to invent a strategy not to forget one system!
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My God ! I played SE day and night for 2 years and did't now such a nice option !
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You don't just go randomly clicking on every button to see what it does?
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My God ! I played SE day and night for 2 years and did't now such a nice option !
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You don't just go randomly clicking on every button to see what it does?
That's what I do when I first get a game. That's how I learn them. And that is how I started SEIVG, it came in mail, I installed and and started clicking before I read anything on how to play. Worked rather well.
I also do that with new computer programs I get. Trial and Error is the best way to learn IMHO.
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4. Then Click on the FILL QUE button fourth up from the bottom of the menu to the right.
holey mother of moley, i always assumed that button filled your current que with lots of a single item. so, do these pre-saved queues get saved with your empire the same way ship designs do?

thats the most amazing thing i have heard, since i found out you could right click on the quadrant map!
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so, do these pre-saved queues get saved with your empire the same way ship designs do?
Yes they do.
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do these pre-saved queues get saved with your empire the same way ship designs do?

Yes they do
Really? That's something I didn't know.

I rarely save empires, except to set up PBW games.
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