Could you just please delete the 'Colony not within range' check when launching a newly built ship? I can see 20 different planets on the explored map that I can send my ship to but the game just seems to do a range check from the shipyard - not a range check from your furthest colonized planet. So I have to waste time landing the colony ship on a nearby, out-of-the-way planet and loading colonists from there, before proceeding to my destination. If I build a colony ship or transport, I usually have a destination in mind and there is no need to do a wasteful range check. The same check happens when launching transports. I've lost several planets to other races because of the travel time wasted in doing this.