re: "3. Colony ships should automatically have population assigned. Too many clicks to load population - a waste of effort that brings no pleasure and is a chore to remember."
But which population would that be in the case of a colony ship built from a planet containing two races? What if I *like* my colony ships to be empty, because I am building them on my industrial world full of methane-breathers, but need to swing by and pick up a load of hydrogen-breathers on my way out to colonize the frontier?
The colony ships (as has already been pointed out) already load with pop if the ship is (only?) issued the colonize order. If *you* plot the path to the planet to be colonized, then you have to manually load with colonists.
Personally, I prefer manual-loading ... I can think of at least ten other tasks in SEIV that are more cumbersome to carry out that loading pop onto a colony ship.
Re: Suggestions for Malafador
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