[dogscoff]

My tactic has always been to colonise everything I can within my core systems to prevent friendly AIs from getting a foothold in there. However that isn't 100% effective so I have a few other tactics:

-Build colony ships and trade them for any AI colony ships heading into your space. You get lots of extra population / tech this way as well.

-If the AI succeeds in colonising a planet I want I just trade it for some other planet. I deliberately colonise within their space / space I don't particularly want so I'll have surplus planets to trade with.

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There is an exception to every rule. Including this one.

[This message has been edited by dogscoff (edited 03 April 2001).]