I like playing on the Gigantic maps and I've found that managing anything over 50 colonies is just to time consuming, much less trying to manage 400! So here's an idea I had for managing colonies. Oh, and I have version 1.4x.

I would like to be able to place planets under computer control, but here is how I would like it done. I would like a computer control management screen with the option of "tabbing" planets by class. What I mean is I would like to see all the planets of one class and no other. For instance, if I selected the "class 7" tab I would see all my colonies of class 7. Now, under this tab I would like two options that would apply to all the planets under this tab that are checked for computer control. First, I would like to set the focus(social, military, research) for all planets of that class at once. Second, I would like to have a template for the colony management of the planets of that class. I would go into the template editor and see a colony building and X (X being the class number -1) number of green squares, kind of like the "colony management" screen of a newly colonized planet. I would like to designate exectly what gets built in those green squares(and in the order I placed them) for a particular class of planet and then save that template. I would then like to be able to have the computer use that template and apply it to all of my colonies, of that particular class automatically after they've been colonized, this way I don't have to manage each planet singularly. I would like to look at each planet just ONCE and check it for computer control or, if I want, to manage it myself( I might want to myself because of special tile bonuses, etc.).

Anyway, this would make my life a whole lot easier.