[Gandalph]

Originally posted by Warsaw Baby:
1) Are there mods for the AI which make it more intellegent in its strategy and descision making? I am tired of the CIV type AI's which compensate for their stupidity with overwhelming force.

There are several mods that make better AI opponents for solo play, TDM being the most popular.

2)While playing the demo I noticed whenever I contacted a race and made an offer (such as a trade treaty) I would have to wait till the end of the turn for the answear. Does this mean that offers and counteroffers will take several turns?

SE IV is a turn based game so yeah, sometimes it takes several turns if you offer a counter to their traety proposal and then they offer a counter, etc.

3) How do you use the remote miners etc. which show up on your ship design screen. Do I add them to a ship and move them to the planet I want to mine? Does the mined material automatically get into resource pool or do I need to transport back to a planet with a spaceport? Is there anyway to automate the whole process?
Thank You in advance for your help.

Remote miner components are placed on a ship/base/satellite and sent, or built on in the case of a base, to an unoccupied planet or asteroid belt. The resources produced are automatically sent back to the empire. There is a good section on this in the newbie faq stickified at the top of the forum. Very good reading for the rest of the questions I am sure you will be asking.