[God Emperor]

Master Belisarius,
You may be correct about the 80% setting not working, but, I thought I did observe a race switch to mining colonies before it was in the red. Must admit, though that I didnt check it that closely as I was really focussing on 80% being breached. I have set my AI's to 99% now anyway which at at least eliminates any confusion (ie if they are spending more than they are mining, they definately will be building mining colonies, one way or the other).

Thanks for your reply...