AI tech trade bug

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Originally posted by Nitram Draw:

Unless you have expanded rapidly in a 10 planet start you should not reach MEE for quite some time as your score % differance will be harder to acheive.

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If I wanted to I could be MEE at 5000k in less than 10 turns (turn 55) by having all my bases build bases. As it is I want breakeven minerals or better at MEE. That will take me until about turn 63-65. I DID expand rapidly - all over the map with my self imposed limit of 39 colonies in 30 systems by turn 30. I can just about double my score every five turns (by having yard bases build yard bases only) but that quickly leads to minerals bankruptcy and just a hollow shell empire. So unless the AI slow down their own expansion rate I cannot do the dominoe surrender trick until about turn 120-130 as usual. It takes a LONG time for just 39 colonies to get minerals up to support a 5000k score with warships, but bases cost half maintenance so that goes quicker. I will mothball yard bases where I need them the least when necessary to avoid MEE... Is that an exploit of the no-score mothball or just smart strategy ?