Look at the bottom of the icon stack, and you'll see a red X that you can click to clear all the icons. If ships were built for the turn and left in orbit, a green arrow will appear immediately to the left. You can click that to launch everything that you built that turn.

In Twilight, the Game tab of the Options includes a check box named "Auto Launch Ships From Orbit" that does what it says when you select it--you'll never see the green arrow thingy again.

I didn't read you well enough earlier; now I it sounds like you might have a problem with your installation. I've never experienced or read around here about not seeing the blue square icons on the right when your GNN report lists ships constructed for the turn. Have you tried support@stardock.com?

That must be a tricky one. I've played far too many large-map DL and DA games and I never saw that, or at least never noticed a brief interruption followed by return to "normal."

I think it definitely has to do with the style of games--the size of the universe and the number of ships.

I don't see it at the beginning of the game.  Only when the number of planets and the number of ships gets very large.  Only on the two largest galaxies.

The problem once it starts doesn't go away by itself.  I have to save and restart, look for my built ships, and then inevitably the next turn shows new ships--but only for that turn.

I sometimes will find 2, 3, 4 ships unlauched at a planet if I don't look for them earlier.  This is on the biggest size galaxy where I have 200+ planets.

I think it has to do with # of planets or # of ships built/turn.  It only happens to me in the late stages of a game where I have at least a couple hundred planets and am producing tons of ships.  I assumed it was some sort of memory or overflow issue.

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