Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Gregorovitch55

I find the easiest way to handle construction ships is to leave them on manual and order builds from:

a) Expansion Planner - I use this most of all
b) Resort, research base and mining quick lists
c) Colonies for star ports etc
d) Occasionally from planets using the buttons on the bottom left viewer if I come across something


This queues up jobs for the construction ships and by using the construction ship quick list you can periodically check when they have run out of jobs to do (they will say "no mission") and order up some more. This way they never build anything without you deciding to build it and it is sufficiently easy and quick to bulk order jobs, especially using the expansion planner, that it is more or less semi-automated.

The select by empire priority on the expansion planner is pretty good for listing potential mining stations in order of priority and when that becomes empty (i.e. when AI thinks you've got enough of what you need right now) switch to galaxy priority as this will help keep resource prices down, and of course you can never have enough caslon. You won't get any annoying messages doing things this way.