While it is fun and all to actually tweak every single detail down to the last bit of micro-management, it can get extremely repetitive and tedious when playing on an immense map, where there will be like 200+ planets to take care of.
We need an auto-govern AI to free us from this task, so that we may focus on more important matters, like military conquest and so on.
I think the ability to set templates, and apply planets to templates a little bit like the shipyard functionality would mostly alleviate this problem.
I basically run 4 types of planets at all times.
1) Full manufacturing.
2) Full science.
3) Full Econ.
4) Full science that still needs significant manufacturing to build stuff.
At the moment, once I finish my initial tech rush, I put everything into full manufacturing as the default then shift them later, but yea on 40-50-100+ planets, I can spend an hour on one turn just resorting and checking planets. It would be nice if I could just tick an AI manager box, or have templates I can assign 30 planets to at once if I want.
The ability to make custom AIs for ships and planets is on there want to do list I believe.
I would really like it if you could tell the game to auto upgrade your starbases. Perhaps give you the option to focus on production, attack or defense. Seeing as you can already tell the starbases to order constructors, it would be nice if they also used them automatically also.
I tend to build an economy starbase for all my planets, as well as all the mining starbases. I leave extra constructors on them when they get maxed out and when I research a new technology for them it gets really tedious upgrading them all one at a time. It would be nice if there was an option to have the game do that for me automatically.
A big plus one for this. I reckon I'll stick to playing smaller maps until something like this is in place, as the micro is just a bit too RSI-inducing. Once this is in, though, I reckon the potential for those larger map games is huge .
Indeed a very annoying work every time a new thingy for a starbase is being researched. +1
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