The only way I see that could happen is if your trying to adjust taxes during the turn change, which is never a good idea unless the turn is being held up while waiting for you to move a ship.

Similar annoying issue - is anyone else frustrated at how planet menus pop up when they flip to your side from influence? It's a good idea that the game forces these planets to your attention, but IMO it would be better if they just came up with all the other end-of-turn news items, in a controllable manner.

The controlling parties bonuses become negatives for you, until you regain control.

An event log like Civ4's would do the trick, along with not allowing new windows to steal focus until the player exits the current window.

I am most sincerely vexed by this context, especially when it involves multiple planet flips in a single turn. I dislike being "forced" to leave new Starports inactive because I don't want to miss updating build queues for new worlds.

Unfortunately planet flipping isn't represented by those icons AFAIK.

The icon stack could still be a problem for large map players b/c it doesn't indicate that there are more non-ship-build events out of view at the top of the stack.

I would say I have two big issues:

1. I would like to be able to accept or reject (or perhaps put on hold) any tech
advance I get from capturing a planet. Sometimes the tech advance is an economy buster and I hate deleting super advanced factories if I don't need them or can't afford them.

2. I would like the unowned planet list to show the category of planet it is (under DA--toxic, radioactive, aquatic, barren, high gravity, or anybody). Or perhaps to sort the list by category. Something, so I don't have to double click to see whether I want to colonize it. When I come back, the list (I believe) is back to planets I already own.

This pop up thing is especially annoying if you get more than one planet flipping. When you go to set up the ship queue, you get forced to go on to the second flipped planet, meaning you have to backtrack to the first planet all over again.

This is a good notion for some players, I'm sure. But starting around late mid-game, I usually have at least 75 colonies and I do not have any uniform patterns that would help me single out the flipped worlds. The only time I can do it that way I can do that is if they did have Starports and I'm not in one of those periods where I deliberately leave low-production Starports idle to save money.

Brycej's comment about the minilist is also interesting. I never use that list for anything but looking for things to rush build or ships to upgrade. The big Colonies list, now, that's a place that really needs to show the environment variables. There's always a point in my DA games where I have to go around my whole empire looking for those little yellow icons and trying to count up how many tiles are in each set so I know which Advanced enviro tech will pay off the most. That would be much easier to do in the Colonies list, but the info isn't there.