[Kev]

Yes you can increase a population's resilience to weapons, but one only wonders if the AI can alter its strategy and tactics to accommodate this - it might continue to stupidly bomb planets to almost no effect, which is the result I've gotten after trying it.

This is a major flaw in the game. You can invade AI colonies but they must take the slower route of bLast\colonize. It's not much fun to play like this, either.

It was the same in SE3. I had been hoping this gameply issue had been fixed in SE4. Aaron, if you're reading this, can you plan and implement some ways to address this weakness?