I find myself cancelling all beginning-of-turn ship loads. Then when the ship gets its turn to move, I can move it and I get the option to load it again, this time while seeing where I am and what kind of ship I have.

But this is of course silly. It defeats the entire purpose of having the popup at beginning of turn. I agree with at a minimum letting me know what type of ship I am loading up.

+1

And on a related note, anytime it asks you if you want to do anything with a ship, it should display the ship in question.  For instance, I have armed and unarmed survey ships floating about. I keep getting the "Protected by pirates. Do you want to engage?" pop-up.  I don't know if I want to because I don't know which ship is engaging.

/signed

...and for every other ship / planet / SB pop-up and reference in this game.  There's somewhere between 'zero' and 'far too little' specific reference information for such things.  GC3 would do well to take a leaf out of the Distant Worlds book: that game gives you multiple ways of finding what something is talking about in all pop-ups / info tickers.

Bump.

There is at least one other post on this subject in the forums.  This was mentioned in 3/24/16 dev stream.  Please can we change the load ship window to say Load Colonists when loading a colony ship and Load Troops when loading a troop transport?

They could lease out this messaging system to politicians.... so they can improve their deniability.... Media "you covered up the massacre of civilians?" Politician "well yes i was informed of the massacre of civilians in the attack but i did not know which military unit they were talking about or where it happened"..... brilliant! hahahaha