Specifying Ship Type When Loading Troops vs. Colonists

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When a new colony or transport is manufactured the turn begins with a dialog box which doesn't specify which kind of ship is being loaded.  On larger maps I may be waging war on one side of my ZOC and colonizing on the other, and the only clue we have now which kind of ship is being loaded is that we can see on which planet the ship was produced.  With a dozen or more shipyards I have trouble keeping track of who's making what, so specifying ship type would be helpful.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

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This has confused me many times as well. It would be very helpful to see:

  • what type of ship was built
  • in which shipyard/near which planets
Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

It gives you the planets that can load the transport/colony ship, but I have also had confusion during ship loads.  The best I have been able to arrange is that colony ships will be set up to load 3 billion colonists and transports will load 6 billion soldiers.  When it shows the load ship dialogue I can tell whether the default 2.5 value is against a max of 3 or 6.  I have recently done transports with 9 billion soldiers and that works, too.  I have never had a desire to have a bigger colony ship, so that is probably why it works for me.

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