I've played a few games with the AI since the latest patch but none of my opponents have surrendered to me before nuking each and every one of thier planets. In short, i haven't yet seen a difference in this reguard from the previous patch.And when playing against multiple AI opponents, if you beat one down to the point where they surrender shouldn't you then immediatly acqurie all of thier remaining planets?Has anyone out there had experiences with the AI surrendering before they are utterly annialated?
I have had the AI surrender. I have been messing around with modding the game to get the hang of it, and the only thing I could think of that would be simple to start with was making a cheat kind of mod for TEC. So, after building up my huge TEC attack group, I sent them to attack the enemy (One of the 10 hard AIs). Now, my fleet was composed of around over 100 carriers, 50 battleships, and a bunch of some of the others, and a bunch of frigs and cruisers. Right after it steamrolled a small AI attack group, I almost instantly get this victory screen coming up ( I am assuming they surrendered, it did not say if they did or not - but no one else can think of why it would do that, so... )
Personally, I think that feature should be optional, just like Supreme Commander has assassination / annihilation / and all those (Annihilation being where you have to destroy -every- unit, assassination being just the commander, and one other that is just all the buildings). Except in this the option should be AI Surrender: Enable/Disable (Sorry, but I was actually looking forward to watching the fight...)