[Dracus]

I ran into this too, before I loaded the patch. (loaded it Last night, have not played under the new settings yet.)
took out the AI down to a small planet that they had. This planet was not suited for them. their homeworld was gone and they could not produce any ships at all. Killing this Last planet would be just to take their race completely out of the game (this was a 3 way war with each of us fighting the other.) Since I do not have troops yet and I can not get them to surender, They keep sending Messages that they are about to go on the offense in that system, I decided to protect them from the other race until I can troop capture them. 100 turns later, they still will not end the war. So it is, that I continue to allow them to live on a barren world in the middle of my empire. (due to war costs, most of my development is on hold so I still have not gotten troops yet.)

[This message has been edited by Dracus (edited 06 January 2001).]