How do work Ministers ?

[Klebdog]

I personally have only used ministers by mistake when I accidentally turned them on. I was both annoyed and dispointed with results and prefer to get into the weeds with my empire decisions.

[oleg]

Originally posted by PDF:
Bump, looks like either noone uses ministers, or that those that use them don't know what they do !

Actually, I use ministers in every game for a month at least - I am working on improving AI.
It is quite fun as long as you don't care about how ineffective is your country government. Few hours and you are in 200 turns into the game. Then AI does something stupid I think I can fix and start all over again. Sometimes I took control over tactical combat when battle looks interesting and I am bored.

[Gandalph]

There are several ministers that I use every game. Facility construction, ship design, colonization, production output, mines/sats/drones, retrofit, and ship cloaking. Keep in mind that I have modded my race files so that I know exactly what the Minister is going to do and have these ministers on to minimize in-game management to the areas I prefer to manage.