I feel smacked. Was I just smacked? (Or maybe it was D who got smacked.)
I read the Boards several times a day, but to be honest my memory isn't what it used to be.
If you are talking about AI states, yes there are things that can modify what gets researched and built, but I don't recall anybody saying that hitting a minefield will have any effect on AI state. Unless you mean in a more general sense that meeting another race will change the AI state, but that is not what SJ was saying.
Unless I misunderstood his point.
Geo
[This message has been edited by geoschmo (edited 17 July 2001).]