I have just conquered your civilisation, ended your culture.

Not bearing any kind of grudge and simply acknowledging the inevitable rise of my civilisation all your remaining combat ships join my Empire.

Hang on, where were all these ships when I was glassing your homeworld?

The AI might waste ...

I always play with minimum amount of colonisable worlds and indys.

I still always get indy planets shoved down my throat.

So conquered last planet of enemy civ.

No X empire has been wiped out notification, no dump of tons of useless ships into my fleets and no receipt of their actually useful mining stations.

There are no further surviving colonies, and in the score screen this is confirmed, population 0% colonies 0 ...

Slightly tangential to this but relevant.

If you set independent colonies to the lowest setting, the game still stuffs them down your throat.

Currently have a General with a +30% attack bonus but its irrelevant because he wont most of the time disembark from the transport fleet he is assigned to.

He will some times, but its hella inconsistent. Also, when he does leave, its a pain because I then have to manually reassign him to the fleet ...