I thought it was worth re-visiting this thread to point this excellent post out on Steam that outlined the problem better than i.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1531540/discussions/0/3269057884705747372/

"In the last game I purposely left everything on auto. And at one point I had a collapse of ...

I believe i've seen versions of this complaint elsewhere, but never really expressed clearly. There are a couple of problems that all compound here.

1) When you colonize a new planet, unless you micro the colonizer, it will usually pick up the 'wrong species' of people from your empire.
2) There is ...

Planetary adminstration buildings are needless micromanagement. They are always worth building. If you use manual control on colony buildings (which i suspect most people do) then they are also a pain in the butt later in the game when you need to try and upgrade 24 buildings across your empire ...

same
https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 1&t=380953

First:
the frequency discussed ship manager. I actually have no issue with the constraints on the new ship designer. however, i was hoping for a significant improvement in the, lets call it 'ship manager' and in fact, its exactly the same as DWU. Essentially, it only allows me to build one ship of ...