PBW - AI control of your empire?

[LeTharg]

There is a proposed enhancement on the to-do list for PBW to allow you change your state so the game won't wait for you when you will be unable to play.

Two suggestions:
1. Get someone to play your turn for you with permission of your game admin. It will be much much better than letting the AI play and it won't hold up the game.

2. Or else if you are only going to miss 2 or 3 turns, then go into the empire options and ministers and set the flag that tells the AI to do nothing in simultaneous games. It will still do terrible stuff but much less than otherwise. If you fill all your queues (construction, research, movement etc.) it won't change your orders. It will mess up your designs and take every opportunity to destroy your position. But it is better than giving it a free hand.

[Noble713]

Well my empire is in such poor shape the AI can't really damage it, I just didn't want to hold up the game. Things are so bad for me, I'm getting the Minimum Empire Resource Generation and that's it.

Oh yeah, that's something to add to the to-do list: if you get reduced to 1 system, you should get the resources produced in that single system even if you don't have a spaceport.

[LeTharg]

Wow, if the empire is in that bad shape you might just ask the game admin to "finish" it. That will turn it over to the AI for the rest of the game, and then when you have moved, you can join a new game and try for a better position.