Colony ships

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It took a while but I decided I do not like the new colonize function added to colony ships in beta 5. After launching a colony ship in a system with multiple planets, I like to investigate the other colonized planets to see what they are building. I can't do that without the colony ship being destroyed. I cant even click on an uncolonized world to see the mini-map without colonizing it. There is no reason I can think of making this feature mandatory as, after the planet views are done, the colony ship is still able to colonize same system worlds from the sector view. Please add an option to disable this feature.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I'm not quite following you. If you've launched the ship and it's no longer in orbit, you shouldn't be having problems clicking on colonized planets, and clicking on an un-colonized planet would take you back to the starmap, closing the system list.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Immeadiatly after launching a colony ship (before going to the Next planet view) put the cursor over an uninhabited planet in the system view. By left clicking on that planet, your just launched colony ship will colonize that planet. If the planet is already colonized, its population will increased by the amount on the colony ship. Either case, the colony ship is destroyed. This is all done without ever going to the starmap.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Isn't this how it has been for at least the last 4-5 Builds? If you want to go to the star map, launch the Colony ship to the star map ie make it leave the star system by double clicking on the ship icon in the stacked ships list under the planet list, filling it with colonists.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Ok, there was a bug where the system list wasn't clearing the colony ship after it was launched. I fixed that. However, if you have another colony ship in orbit, the colonize cursor will still appear, but it will only colonize uncolonized systems, which is how it's supposed to work.

If you want to switch back to the sector map view and you don't want to have to launch all your colony ships, hit the Starmap button on the button bar.