[geoschmo]

I don't know. I have never really tried to make it work one way or the other for an AI player. I am just selectively using the mines/sattelite minister to control the launching of sats and take a little of the micromanagment out. It works quite well actually. I wish it worked for mines as well but it doesn't.

Perhaps it's beccuase I am so selective. Maybe the problem with the AI is that somehow they competing minsters are contradicting each others orders? I don't really know.

As far as I know the ministers are the same as AI control are they not? That's what I have always been told anyway, and I have never seen anything except possibly this point to contradict that.

The other possibility is as I said maybe it has something to do with rounding. I tend to go for missle sats so they are more expensive and I can't build as many per turn. I will try some experiments with cheaper sats and try to get mroe built per turn and see if some get left in cargo.

Geoschmo