Would an auto turn feature...

[capnq]

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he wants something like: make this player computer-controlled for X turns, or until Z event occurs [...] You could kind-of do that now, if you plan ahead. Instead of finishing off an enemy, leave him with one crippled ship and demand subjugation. Then, any time you want a rest, make yourself that player and turn your empire over to the AI.

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If you want a rest from managing your empire, why not just save the game and go do something else for a while? The only use I've been able to think of for an autoplay feature is testing a modded AI's mid- and late game strategy without playing out the early game manually. (And it's taken me this long to think of that use.)

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[This message has been edited by capnq (edited 05 June 2001).]