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The AI is fairly poor at choosing which world to build which facilities on. For example, in my current game, I took special care not to destroy the facilities on a huge world before my troops arrived. I was pretty excited when I saw 20 miners plus other facilities. Imagine my shock and dismay when I found the planet value to be just 34% minerals.
Time to build some value improvement plants.
You see, my prob with taking a planet, is getting my ships to do it for me without me having to do the battle manually. Sometimes, I love to do it my self, but most of the time, its a clean up option, and the AI does not do this very well. In fact, when I set my ship stratigies to CAPTURE PLANET if carring troops, all my ships will do is go to the planet, hoover and use up there turns and DO NOTHING. That really bothers me, for I then have to manually play the next round, and move my ships to the planet, and then drop them. That takes about 5 minutes to do.
In 5 minutes, if the auto feature worked, I could take 3 to 5 planets in stead of just 1.
I do love this game, but this would be a nice fix for the next patch if indeed it is a bug.
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"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Patric Stewart as Captain Picard
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