So, this might sound strange but...
I usually play with the event window in the foreground. I set auto turns, click the increment time I want, then I switch to the event window and let it run there. With the event window in the foreground, and color-coded events, I can immediately see what is happening of importance and I can even somewhat multi task, as in throw a glance from time to time to the event window while doing other stuff. Only if I see a color I know is important I go back and take a look.
But... recently I cannot rely on this. More and more as the game goes forward, my event window loses focus and the system map comes in the foreground. I often see in the taskbar that the order of the open aurora windows down there changes. For example, suddenly the population window moves to be the rightmost minimized window or something like that.
Am I doing something wrong here? Is there something that can be done? I am using windows 7 64bit