One possibility to reduce micrmanagement would be to give players a notification (but not only in the list of recent events on the right) when a scout or survey ship discovers something (anomaly, relic, resource, AI planet, uninhabited planet, ship of enemy AI). Right now I never let them explore automatically because I would have to scan the entire map every turn to see whether they have discovered something important.
Edit: huh? Don't know why this post appears twice, under General and under Future Ideas.
