Report on current game: Playing as the Empire on the hutt map, and am having a really enjoyable game. 1. Finally got to see the ai build some super capital ships (Vong medium titan) which really presented a great challenge. 2. Ai has actually done some techs, not great but at least some. 3. Ai, in this game at least, is absolutely in love with cultural rely stations. On one industrial planet it had 33 on these stations. 4. Deep into the game, and have not seen any star-bases, which previously, the ai seemed to build really well, so not sure what going on? Overall, SOGE, IMHO, is really starting to be a great, great game (not that it wasn't before). Cheers. Oh, you might get away with increasing the range of slave circuits to 2000, as this stops a lot of fiddly micro, but does not overpower the ability. Edit. Not sure if its just my computer play up, but I seem to be getting quite a few run time CTD errors. Seems a bit weird, as I have never had this problem with Sins before. Game plays for 20-40 mins, the crashes.