first, thanks gurduloo for clarifying that, I forgot to mention it - doooohhhhh
secondly, gryph, play balance is possibly the reason although personally, I never understand why 2000 million people on a planet beavering away doesn't strip resources (ok ok unless finite resources are on) but a bunch of dopey robots would - ok ok I could see why this would apply to the localised asteroid fields you get in SEIV but not generally
just some ideas GT
