No ship balancing suggests here. I just use what I have and go with the updates.
(1) Click n` Cluster. From the colonies screen, you can click eligible colonies to cluster them together. This will basicallly have the same benefits as Click n` Plunder for paid since you save turns, but since you cluster instead of plunder you can cluster planets over the large barrens you are saving for a nice sized C1, allowing you to buzzsaw through colonies at a faster rate AND mine them icy planets at the same time :).
(2) Reinforcements sent screen. Whenever you send reinforcements to a slave empire, the battle logs go into a screen accesible from your "slave empires" page. This will make it quite easy to see who is trying to rip away your slaves and the losses incurred in protecting them.
(3) Build ships from "Manage Fleet" screen. Say you quickly need a couple more of this ship or that. With this change you could type in the numbers and click a new button that would say "build" instead of "disband". OPTIONAL: a Pop-up would come up displaying turns, credits and minerals required for building your selection. You would then either select confirm or cancel.
I recommend these features for paid (sigh even though I`m not paid oh well).
(4) Give us a suggestions forum as we sure could use one.
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