Ministers - which are the safe bets?

[Noble713]

The colonization minister isn't TOO bad. Usually by the time I turn it on, I'm bringing in so many resources that it doesn't really matter what I colonize. Rather than spend inordinate amounts of time scouring the galaxy looking for good planets, I just flick on the AI for colony ships, and try to make the best of whatever planets it colonizes. It's still incompetent (colonizing small, resource-poor worlds with the wrong atmosphere, even though huge, resource-rich worlds with the right atmosphere are just 1-2 systems farther away) but so much easier than manually directing 2-5 colony ships somewhere every turn.

[Suicide Junkie]

Indeed.
You're gonna colonize everything anyways, so might as let the minister work out the fine details and make sure nothing is missed.

You can always divert a colony ship to those big breathables manually, and let the minister "fill in" your secured territory.

[Dizzy]

I have lots of methane, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen planets and 4 races I've assimilated/captured. Are these minister population transports gonna transport the right races to the right planets?

[Slick]

Dizzy said:
I have lots of methane, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen planets and 4 races I've assimilated/captured. Are these minister population transports gonna transport the right races to the right planets?

Not only no, but he will transport non-breathers to your undomed planets so that they will become domed. Don't use the population transport minister once you have more than one kind of breathing population.

[Dizzy]

Ahhh, Slick, cool, what I needed to know, ty.

So what other ministers could I use to cut down on micro management? Which ones are the best to use?

[Slick]

The only ones that I think are even remotely usable are the population transport minister BEFORE you get another breathing population and the colonization minister AFTER you have a well established empire to simply colonize the remaining small/tiny planets/moons.

[Atrocities]

We need a new Minister.. The Suicide Minister. Once selected it will run your ships one by one through warp points controlled by enemies thus resulting in the destruction of your ships.