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Originally posted by dmm:
Possible bugs aside, you don't really want to destroy the AI's colony ships. Leaving them crippled does two good things: 1) drains the AI's resources without ever giving it any benefits; and 2)gives you a source of alien colonization tech and population, once you get ships with boarding and repair.
dmm
Good point. I was too hasty in killing what was left of the colony ship. However the AI is still dumb enough to keep sending ships into my known minefiled so there will be another colony ship to capture before long.
Elmo