Hey Gal Civ Devs.... great game great effort.... but please please consider:

It is very very hard to give away or trade specific ships via the current Trading UI. This is due to the very signficant record keeping of each ship required and sheer amount ships invovled at times. I end up avoiding doing this due to time it takes to keep track of it all, which can be a serious compromise of the game design.

Why not allow the player to flag ships of note from the main map, and allow the player to simply donate these ships to other races with a quickly accessed small little dialoug box/menu as a hot button pop up integrated into the main map UI..... that would be a small moveable dialoug item that allows viewing and work on the main map.

One could also have these ships flagged and placed at the top of the list of one's total list of ships when in the tade screen. You could even design it such that a player can flag a group from the various fleets and planets, and give it a name, which will appear as such in the player list of ships in the trade menu. (Group 1 ship ship ship ect..... end group 1 then remaining list of player ships......)

This way we could easily see where and what ships we want to give away or trade to AI races without the game killing paperwork!!

As well one could flag AI planets/ships and star bases using this functionality for trade engociations, such that once one is in the main trade UI key items are easily noted and again avoiding paper work..... so you could go shopping for ships at the Drengens ports.... flag a bunch of ships, which would appear in the Drengin ship roster as noted, again grouped with a name provided by the player.

Just a thought

onward!!

Yukon Jack