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A large component of the domino surrender is the ease with which you can 'blockade' the AI homeworld.
My question about blockading is, if they only have one planet, and you blockade it, why do they immediately lose all of their resource production?
I can understand that if you blockade other colonies not being able to get the resources to the homeworld, but so what if you blockade their homeworld. All of the resources and space yards are right there together. Shouldn't they be able to use them.
After a few turns of being blockaded their population happiness should drop to the point they are rioting and then production should stop, but not immediately.
Can they not build any ships because the accountant can't get to the galactic bank and back?
IMHO, blockading the Homeworld should have no effect on resource production, only on happiness.
As it is now you can conquer the ai about as fast as you can get from one end of the quadrant to the other.