Transport ships and colony ships should not be auto launched!

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Because what we end up with is the ship with wrong population on board.
Alternatively, when auto launch happens, player should be asked about the portion of the troops that he wish to transfer on board.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
This is why auto-launch is selectable.

~SDC~
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah I'd like to see this changed to. Also, it seems like the auto launch is star specific, not planet specific.

olaf
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
It is planet specific.. each planet has a 'auto launch' checkbox. Just don't select planets that are going to make those sorts of ships. Although, it admittedly would be easier to just have those types not autolaunch ever.

fleabitfox
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
What I'd like to see is an empire-wide list of ships you want to autolaunch (those you don't put on the list are not autolaunched), with a planet-by-planet override checkbox that prevents all ships from autolaunching from the planet.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Brad posted somewhere else that it would confuse people to have those not auto-launched while others were.

~SDC~
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
It's kind'o messy now IMHO... the planet level toggle is more of a chore than a help if it has to be changed whenever production switches from colony/transport to warships !
I'd rather have just one global toggle, and NO auto launch of colonies/transport, else I'm letting all planet at "no" autolaunch to avoid the boarding problem... So we're back to initial problem with all ships in orbit :(
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
I don't have any problems with this feature. When I'm building transports I just switch the autolaunch off. Easy as pie.
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Well, this in some sense defeats the purpose of the autolaunch – to be convenient. Before, you also could just press the launch button, it was also easy.