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Originally posted by raynor:
Play on high bonus. Then, they actually build the SM ships. They still don't use them. But at least they build them. 
But what sort of design do they use? I've taken a peek at their designs, and they're all based on Cruiser hulls, with lots of shields, armor, and some weapons. As a result, that annoying message "Insufficient Technology" always pops up. Meanwhile I build a simple SM ship and use other bigger ships to protect it when I open warp points to unexplored systems. By the time they get the tech to build their Cruiser SM ship, they've run out of resources, since they flatly refuse to build the necessary storage capacity to save them up to pay maintenance.
I'll give it a try though, and see what happens.