Help! How do I toggle through the Planets in Selected Order ?

I am not exactly sure that you can cycle through in a specific order.

However, I see that you want to build ships from specific planets so this may be of some help. If that is the case, go to your colony management screen. From here I tend to double click on the Military production icon at the top of the list. This will put the planets with the highest Military Production output at the top, and they will numerically work their way down. Then I will go all the way over to the column that shows what ships are being built, if the planet has a starport, or if the starport is full. If you double click in the rectangle in this column, directly across from the planet you want to build on, a build list will appear. You can choose the ship you wish to build from the colony management screen in this way. From there you can continue to click on the starports column of any planet, leaving the same ship build list up.

With this method I can order 50 planets to build 50 different types of ships in a matter of a minute or two if I so desired.

Hope that helped.

You're working from the colony list in the civilization manager. You can do what you want, you just can't use next planet to get there.

All you need to do is once you're done on the planet simply hit the done button from the planet screen and you'll go back to the colony list in the civilization manager. From their you just go to the next planet on the list double click on that and repeat the process as long as necessary. I often cycle through 450~500 planets in this manner.

One caution, if you go into the planet screen and then go into the ship building screen and if you hit done from the ship building screen then it exits you from everything including the colony list. If you want to do this use "back to planet" from the ship building screen to get to the planet screen and then hit done to get back to the colony list.

Another interesting point is that you can actually sort the planets in your colony list on two criteria at the same time. If you first pre-sort by population for example then you sort by what the colony is building you get a list that lists all the same planet builds together and within the same group they're in population order.

Also note that if you use this double sort to sequence through planets to rush buy ships directly from the colony list, once you buy the first ship you lose the information of the secondary sort. This doesn't happen if you actually go into the planet screen then goto the shipbuilding from there although it does take longer to do this.

Sorting by what the planet is building can be confusing because if you enter the planet screen to rush buy the building and the next thing the planet is building is different then when you get back to the colony list the planet will have jumped to a different area in the list.

Thank you both. Both are great ways of doing what I was trying to do.

Using the "Planet / Ship List" and then clicking the ship being built rectangle just to the right works wonders if all I want to do is buy or change the ship being built.

Also I agree that going to the "Civilization Manager" screen first and then select the planets who are ship building I can toggle through the list quite quickly.

Also thanks for the tip on getting / going back to the planet "Colony Management" screen from the "Ship Yard" and then hitting "Done" to get back to the "Civilization Manager" again.

Although I can not seem to use the double sort on the "Civilization Manager" screen as mentioned. When I select Population, as an example, and then any other pre select it changes the planet list order chages as well.

What did I miss?

Best

JMD

The first sort you do becomes the secondary sort and the 2nd sort you do is the primary sort.

When you do the second sort it becomes the primary criteria that the planets are sorted by, however if there are groups of planets that all fit the same primary sort criteria they will still be listed in secondary sort order.

If you first sort by population then you sort by what the starport is building you'll see a bunch of planets all in a row building the same ship (transports perhaps) then if you look at the group of planets that are all building transports you'll see the these planets are listed in population order. Of course when you get to the group of planets that are building fighters they will also be in population order within that group. But of course the population order will only be within planets that fit the same primary sort.

I do this exact sort by population then by starport so that I can look at all the planets producing transports and scroll down the list to the ones with the least populations. These are the ones I probably want to stop producing transports from and start producing something else. I can also look at planets producing fighters and decide to have them start producing transports once they have the desired population. You can also do this when deciding which planets that you want to rush buy on. I'll sort by pop then by social production. I then spend my cash buying stock markets on my highest pop planets first because they give me the most benefit for my new stock market.

Thanks Mumble. I wasn't aware of the double sort either, had just never noticed as I seem to spend over half the game on that screen.