Minister question

[Kamog]

You load them with 1M because if you let the minister load the ships full of population all the time, eventually your home world could be depleted of most of its population, and your resource production would suffer.

[Frederick_d_Ohlmann]

I never had such a problem with colony ship. With pop tramsport it's true but a 4000m homeworld can spawn a full colony ship every turn without problem.

[Slick]

1M is also lower risk. The Colonization Minister can easily run the ship out of supplies (assuming you are not using the Supply Minister also) and then the ship will take many turns to eventually colonize something. I don't like to have too much population out on colonizers where they don't reproduce.

[Frederick_d_Ohlmann]

As a big user of stellar manip they usually don't run over 1 system in mid game.