Flickering screen, when letting ships auto-move

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When I have multiple Colony Ships going to different destinations, I occationally get the screen to flicker between two of them, like the Game Engine can't decide which to show.

I can get out of this conflict by pressing "Find".
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Hmm..I think I've isolated the problem. It occurs more and more often, the more ships I have auto-moving. Apparently it starts right after I've used "Find" to locate a ship that hasn't moved, and moved it. Then the Engine tries to jump to the next ship, but doesn't stop there - instead it starts cycling through all ships with left-over movement..

That should narrow it down pretty much for you :)

If I'm not mistaken it relates to this line in the debug.err:
Debug Message: Lock: Unable to restore surface.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Just a couple of notes:

1) Disregard the last post above.
2) The flickering stuff takes focus from the Tech advance screen. I've experienced several times that a Science Project runs to completion without getting the Research Complete Screen.
3) The management of Colony Ships needs to be imrpoved. It's too easy to accidentially colonize a new planet in the system where you build a Colony Ship.
Also, when you colonize several planets in one turn, the Engine tends to "skip" all but the last system.
Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
2) You'd get informed about it at the beginning of the next round.
3) I actually like the current colonization procedure, but I also noticed that the computer only colonizes one planet.