So, I did something a bit different this playthrough and really pushed the civilian lines with a ton of requests. As a result I have 11 civilian lines, the largest of which has 25 ships, most are 10 to 15. Total of 173 merchant ships, which dwarfs my current warship fleet!
![Smiley :)](http://aurora2.pentarch.org/Smileys/classic/smiley.gif)
This is all fairly early, as I am just barely into Ion tech, with 12 populated colonies. Largest is Mars with 538 mill, but most are much smaller. Next larges is 14.3 mill, most are in the 4 million range.
So far, I am pretty happy with the way this is working out. I can slap down a colony pretty quickly with the civvie freighters, and most importantly, I dont have to micromanage freighters!
How does this line up with the rest of yalls playthroughs?