Confirmed. Clicking on Strat for militia unit caused crash for me.
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While they still have functioning zones they continue to exist, and functioning zones require a capital city. Occupy their cities and they'll fall. Killing units doesn't do much apart from soften them up for potential peace talks.

Soma FM has some great themed internet radio channels for background gaming soundtrack. I've been listening to Deep Space One, Space Station and sometimes DEFCON.

Seems to very much depend on planet size. Moons play quick with quick turns, probably about 20-40. Easy to knock off in one sitting. Moons are probably a format well suited to PBEM games.

Larger planets seem to take exponentially longer to resolve, and planet size varies widely.

<t> I believe it's something like this... after you have researched 3 technologies in one area (box) it unlocks the next tier. That dilutes the random chance you will discover further tier 1 technologies because the pool of possible discoveries expands significantly. Because of this it helps to play ...

Fantastic work. Can't wait for the AI compatible version. [:)]