Holy Atmospheres, Batman!!! aka stating the obvious

[Slick]

Ok, I will start this thread because there have been several times where I suddenly realized something totally obvious that everyone else probably knows and I feel like a real bonehead for not realizing it earlier. I have played SE III for a long time and upgraded to SE4G when Gold was released. If not documented in the FAQ, or if you just have a funny story, post it here.

I just realized 15 minutes ago that you can tell the atmosphere type of a planet by its color. I know that everyone probably knew this, but I just realized it. DOH! No wonder I had been finding so frustrating to move alien population to the right breathing planet.

I don't normally use neutrals, so I didn't pick this one up early either, but about 2 months ago, I suddenly realized that you can immediately tell if a race is a neutral by their "bland" flag. After that ton of bricks hit me, I noticed that the same races always seem to be neutrals. Can anyone confirm that the batch of neutral races are always neutral? or are they sometimes non-neutral?

Of course, in the beginning, made all the rookie mistakes: no engines on a ship, not loading population on a colonizer, mothballing an entire fleet in space (including the spaceyard ship) so it got stranded, etc, etc...

Anyone else care to state the obvious that they didn't notice?

Slick.