I hate a cheat

[geoschmo]

couslee, the only question here is whether or not the Phong in your game have sufficent build speed to get a resupply depot in one turn. If they do then it is perfectly reasonable that the resupply depot would be built by the time you got there. Construction occurs at the end of the turn. Being that this is a single player, turn-based game, the AI ship moved to the planet, the colony was established, and the supply depot put in the queue during the turn. The construction would have occured at the end of that turn, and if completed in 1 turn would be done befor you got there. That part is not cheating. It would be impossible in a simultaneous turn game however, becasue he wouldn't have access to the build queue right away.

That being said I have never heard of the AI bonuses giving advantages in construction speed. Although I suppose it's possible. Did you modify the Phong empire setup before the game? How many racial points? In a 5000 point game the stock Phong get an extra 20% to construction rate.

And how much population did they have on the colony. If the colonizer had advanced cargo comps, or if it was a larger hull size they could have had extra population which would have resulted in higher than normal build rates.

Geoschmo