Played a very good game.... questions though..

[Grandpa Kim]

If minesweepers remove ALL the mines in a minefield, you will get no message. I agree, this seems odd, but that is what I have seen without exception. If even one ship receives minor damage, then you will get a message.

Kim

[Zarix]

Originally posted by Iron Giant:
Question #3 - What is up with Terran Drones? Whoever thought that drones were useless forgot to tell the Terrans. Fleets of drones and drone carrying ships wiped out my smaller planets, right past mines as if they were'nt there??

This is the mine bug. Early mines can't do enough damage to destroy drones because there isn't partial unit damage in SE4. Next patch should fix this. Before that mines are useless against drones if they don't have mine warhead III.

[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yes, the troops on your planet will fight in it's defense if invaded.

Just remember that ground-based troops can't help the space combat (SE3 allowed the larger troops to fire on spaceships; of course, SE3 didn't have weapon platforms, although it did allow facilities to be armed...).

[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by Lemmy:

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Question #1 - why do they simply decide that they don't like you anymore? It appears that the AI doens't like races it perceives as weak and decides to attack them?

The AI dislikes anyone who is on planets they want, and the AI wants every planet in the neighbouring systems, even if they are occupied by an ally.

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In other words, the AI "claims" neighbouring systems, and gets angry about colonies (again, whether ally or enemy colonies) in "claimed" systems. Some AI's also get angry about ships in "claimed" systems, whether it's allied or enemy ships.

[Wardad]

Some AIs get more upset than others about ally colonies.

It is set in one of the text files. There are anger attitude modifiers for different situations.