be nice if...

[Cybes]

it'd be rather nice to have a ship type (say, a small escort) dedicated to the exploration minister. as it stands, if ye enable him, and the 'set new ships' thing is on (which it usually is - for all of about three ship types), ye can often find your brand new cruiser design happily wandering off into the unexplored reaches of space.

i find the exploration minister is extremel handy in the early stages of the game, but that particular trait is more than a little annoying.

transports also have an annoying habit. they like to cluster together, so that ye have de facto 'fleets' of population transports delivering people to planets. fine, if the planet is freshly settled, and large enough - but when 9 medium transports with highest-level pop containers turn up at a tiny world that could only hold *one* even if the planet were empty... and, yes, this *has* happened to me.

[eagleton]

The problem with transports in SE IV was also
apparent in SE III. They never fixed it, so I'm not very optimistic that it will be changed in SE IV. In one SE IV game, I realized 2 medium transports of mine that took population from a small planet and didn't transport it but dropped it on the same planet again on the next turn for a long, long time...

[Cybes]

whee! now that's a pretty bizaare beheaviour, eagleton! i havent specifically mentioned it to MM as yet, but i know they read this bb... maybe this one warrants a specific email..?

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"Just think of it as Evolution in action" - 'Oath of Fealty', by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.

[General Hawkwing]

Cybes, Have you ever tried getting a minister to correctly sort out what population to move to reduce domed planets? You need to take the steer by the horns and turn ALL the ministers off. Then you will be a true emperor