I'm assuming the option for tech rate (normal, fast, slow, etc.) effects the AI also? My last 2 games with very slow tech rate seem to only have slowed me down. It could have been my lack of planets, but when I was just getting to laser V, every other AI race had researched to at least that level downn every attack and defense tree. I just want to make sure it was my incompetence and the tech speed option does indeed also slow the AI.
