[raynor]

Why not just let the computer select random AI players for you?

In order to get a good game going, you need to select the AI opponents from the TDM, etc that you know will offer the best challenge.

If you'd had a mineral miner facility in the queue rather than a spaceport, you'd be pretty happy, wouldn't you?

I dunno. I'm not so sure I'd want to come back to the planet and find that I'd been wasting the resources building a nonexistent Mineral Miner for the past several turns. (Unless that's a bug they've fixed. It used to be that the game would continue building facilities even after there was no more space available.)

The game dosen't care if you make bad strategic choices.

Ahhh... the time honored defense of the lazy programmer. It's not a bug. It's a feature!