Are Replacements becoming a problem?

[Baron Grazic]

Quote from the PBW FAQ - Section 3.6

The 'Finish' command is used to tell PBW that players will no longer be submitting turns for this empire. It marks the empire as dead for the PBW server (IE. The server will no longer wait for that empires turns as it will let the AI play for that empire instead). It can be used when the empire is dead in the game or when the game admin wants to turn the empire over to the AI to play.

Finishing an empire that was created with the 'NO AI' option basically sets the AI doing pretty much nothing, including accepting surrender.